Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen <at> gmail.com> writes:
> The plural construct is used when it is not clear how many items will be
> available. Consequently there is not much to be done about it. Also the
> effect of plural is not the same for every languages. Welsh allows for six
> ways of indicating a multitude.
Some of them may be rephrased, and some localizations do not really need them at
all. Foe example, in Hungarian "<number> <noun>" constructs the noun is always
in singular, so we've been using "{{PLURAL:$1|one|$1}} thingy" because the
automated checks complain if they see no PLURAL, but on hu.wikipedia it could be
replaced with "$1 thingy" without trouble. (I'm not sure there are actually
frequently loading messages which have PLURAL, but it's worth checking.)
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