alt Hacker NewsRussian has singular, plural and paucal (reserved for small numbers: 2-4). Interestingly, zero is plural, not paucal:
1 kot "1 cat"
3 kota "3 cats"
5 kotov "5 cats"
0 kotov "0 cats"Russian has singular, plural and paucal (reserved for small numbers: 2-4). Interestingly, zero is plural, not paucal:
1 kot "1 cat"
3 kota "3 cats"
5 kotov "5 cats"
0 kotov "0 cats"
Also 101 becomes singular again, as on "101 kot".
There are websites that capture these rules for all common languages, to assist localization and translators.
https://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/...
English is
nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);
Russian is much more complex:
nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2);