https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38573
--- Comment #10 from Roland Illig <roland.illig at gmx dot de> --- (In reply to Frederic Marchal from comment #8) > Adding "is" at the end of the first part works with all the other strings > that can be inserted at the %s placeholder. > > I can make it work with the French translation too. The German translator, > Roland Illig, is very active with his translation. I'll CC him to ask his > opinion about this bug. It works for German, too. And for Spanish. And probably for many other languages, since it can be split into a sentence and a subsentence, where the subsentence does not influence the main sentence. That's seldom for a %s placeholder, since most others replace only a smaller part of the sentence. Therefore I think this particular message is no problem, as soon as the texts for the placeholder are also translated. We still have to be careful with all the other %s placeholders.