From 5a4c8fe0bc1c516a8369e1d354b0b17e10e78e15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:52:36 +0000 Subject: Hungarian has two plural forms. --- gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi') diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi index cf7bec1..f95e10b 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi +++ b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi @@ -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: -- cgit v1.1