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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2006-08-17 11:52:36 +0000
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Hungarian has two plural forms.
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@@ -5284,8 +5284,6 @@ Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;
Languages with this property include:
@table @asis
-@item Finno-Ugric family
-Hungarian
@item Asian family
Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese
@item Turkic/Altaic family
@@ -5321,6 +5319,21 @@ Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Esperanto
@end table
+@noindent
+Another language using the same header entry is:
+
+@table @asis
+@item Finno-Ugric family
+Hungarian
+@end table
+
+Hungarian does not appear to have a plural if you look at sentences involving
+ordinal numbers. For example, ``1 apple'' is ``1 alma'', and ``123 apples'' is
+``123 apples''. But when the number is not explicit, the distinction between
+singular and plural exists: ``the apple'' is ``az alma'', and ``the apples'' is
+``az alm@'{a}k''. Since @code{ngettext} has to support both types of sentences,
+it is classified here, under ``two forms''.
+
@item Two forms, singular used for zero and one
Exceptional case in the language family. The header entry would be: