New plural rules for Scots Gaelic (gd)
Thanks for the interesting extra info on Scots Gaelic.
Yes, separating 1 and 11 into two groups would solve your problem in the messages above. (How bothered Scots Gaelic users are with this is not for me to say, of course). Amending your original groupings gives the following:
- 1 >> Form 1
- 2, 12 >> Form 2
- 11 >> Form 3
- 3-10, 13-19 >> Form 4
- 0, 20 and anything above >> Form 4
We have to do the same for 12 too though, because it's also treated as singular (but with lenition of all words), cf:
1 dùn, 11 dùn, 2 dhùn, 12 dhùn
3 dùin
Bothered... in this case very. I'm all for not being overly conservative in grammar and style but this is a very important thing to get right.
OK. I must say that I enjoy working on translatewiki.net partly because, being volunteers, we are able to concentrate on quality rather than quantity or speed of translation.
So, again amending your original formulation, you need 6 categories altogether
- 1 >> Form 1
- 2 >> Form 2
- 11 >> Form 3
- 12 >> Form 4
- 3-10, 13-19 >> Form 5
- 0, 20 and anything above >> Form 6
It does make a nice change, especially the feeling that the people at the other end are actually interested in the peculiarities of your language and getting it right. Try explaining the plurals issue to the Google in Your Language team >.<
Yes, that would appear to cover it all, dioch yn fawr, a charaid!