# Update of Transifex

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/update-of-transifex/9257>\
**Category:** Translations Team Discussion\
**Created:** [March 27, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/update-of-transifex/9257 "2015-03-27T09:33:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Valiant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valiant/32/4788_2.png) [@Valiant](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valiant)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/update-of-transifex/9257/1 "2015-03-27T09:33:41Z")

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I noticed an update of Transifex (at least for Russian translation). Now there are 4 translation sections: “one”, “few”, “many” and “other”, while original English variant still has only 2: “one” and “other”. Can someone explain me these 4 sections with examples (in English), so I can use them as a reference for correct translation?

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**Author:** ![Wuzzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/wuzzy/32/41_2.png) [@Wuzzy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wuzzy)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/update-of-transifex/9257/2 "2015-03-27T10:26:38Z")

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This is called “grammatical number”.

In English, there is singular and plural.

One house.  
Two houses  
One liter.  
Two liters.  
0.5 liters.

In English, the rule is simple: If the number is exactly 1, it is singular (“one” in Transifex). Otherwise, it is plural (“other” in Transifex).

Grammatical number rules may be different for each language. I don’t know anything about Russian, but it could be that Russian has a different grammatical number system than English. Which would mean it has more than just singular and plural.

To know what exactly these rules are, you must know Russian a little bit or ask someone who knows the language better than I do.

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**Author:** ![Valiant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valiant/32/4788_2.png) [@Valiant](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valiant)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/update-of-transifex/9257/3 "2015-03-27T11:01:02Z")

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I mean, I thought that these “one”, “few” and so forth are for reference. I.e. “One house”, “few houses”, “many houses” and “other houses”.  
I wonder what Transifex meant by them.

EDT: that’s not an update, as I understand, these 4 grammatical times are for some selected strings. 3 is more common.

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**Author:** ![LazyCat-rus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LazyCat-rus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LazyCat-rus)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/update-of-transifex/9257/4 "2015-04-02T08:19:03Z")

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This is plural forms of gettext.  
Russian lang have 3 plural forms:  
1 thing - Just one  
2-4 things - Many (but not so big)  
5-infinity things - Many

Every plural form for any language can be explained by special gettext string in .po file  
Here is example for Welsh Language:

```auto

```

where is:  
nplurals=4 – Means that language have 4 plural forms  
(n==1) ? 0 - if things num is ‘1’ then use first plural form  
(n==2) ? 1 - if things num is ‘2’ then use second plural form  
(n != 8 && n != 11) ? 2 - if things num is not 8 or 11 then user third plural form  
othewise use forth plural form.

For Russian is more complicated, i don’t want describe this mess =)

```auto

```

Most languages(like English) have simple plural form:

```auto

```

And any translation system must respect plural forms of any language.

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**Author:** ![Jeffreyraigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jeffreyraigh](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Jeffreyraigh)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/update-of-transifex/9257/5 "2017-03-26T20:02:09Z")

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Just downloaded a client update to the CBT this morning. Giving you a heads up. Adamas