Plural forms for Lower Sorbian

Asked by pe7er

Hello,

I whish to continue Lower Sorbian translations but i cannot beause of the plurals so this is how it works:

Lower Sorbian has:

singular - one object
dual - two objects
plural - three ore more objects

so when you know that, could someone let me continue translation work?

regards

pe7er

thanks for anwser Adi, but i dont know how to teach launchpad that

ps. Lower Sorbian is west-slavic language and Gaelige is celtic, so both languages are not very similar

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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) said :
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This should be the plural form for Lower Sorbian

Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n==1 ? 0 : n==2 ? 1 : 2;

Your language should be similar to Gaeilge (Irish).

You did not mention about the case of zero object.

Good luck!

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pe7er (pe7er) said :
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ok but what i shoud do with that and what does it mean : nplurals=3; plural=n==1 ? 0 : n==2 ? 1 : 2 ?

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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) said :
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Peter,

Lower Sorbian has the following plural forms:

Form 0 - singular - one object
Form 1 - dual - two objects
Form 2 - plural - three ore more objects

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npluras = 3 - this mean it has 3 different forms

n==1 ? 0 : n==2 ? 1 : 2; - this means use Form 0 if you have 1 object, use Form 1 if you have 2 object and use form 3 otherwise.

This is an importan questions:
How do you say for 0 objects ? What plural form is use for translating "0 (zero) objects" ?

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pe7er (pe7er) said :
#4

For zero objects it is necessary to use plural. But where I should add those information in launchpad?

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pe7er (pe7er) said :
#5

but in some case for zero objects singular is used, just like in english example: zero gravity (instead zero gravities)

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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) said :
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Hi Peter,

This is the right place for discussing the plural forms for Lower Sorbian.

Please check if the information below is correct.
If everything is OK we should ask an rosetta admin to update the plural form for Lower Sorbian

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Human readable format:
Form 0 - zero objects (depending of the object)
Form 1 - singular - one object
Form 2 - dual - two objects
Form 3 - plural - three ore more objects

Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n==0 ? 0 : n==1 ? 1 : n==2 ? 2 : 3;
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pe7er (pe7er) said :
#7

Hello,
Yes, it is correct. Thanks for help.

Btw. I need also add keyboard layout for Ubuntu. I have prepared one partial keyboard that I'm adding manually to xorg files but I have to do it after each update of package. Is it way to add it to Ubuntu packages "once and for all" ?

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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) said :
#8

This problem is not solved. We should ask a rosetta admin to add this plural form for Lower Sorbian.

For the other problem it is recomended to open a new question.

There should be a nice GUI keyboard layout editor made a this GSOC
http://code.google.com/p/keyboardlayouteditor/

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pe7er (pe7er) said :
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so I reopen problem then

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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) said :
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Can someone from rosetta-admin team can assist us with this question?
Many thanks!

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Best Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) said :
#11

Thank you—I've updated the database with this information, so plurals should work now.

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pe7er (pe7er) said :
#12

It works perfectly, thak you.

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pe7er (pe7er) said :
#13

Thanks Jeroen T. Vermeulen, that solved my question.