On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:21 +0100, Georgi Stanojevski wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a question for all of you. :)
>
> Is minus one (-1) plural or singular in your language?
>
> I would say "Минус едно јаболко" (singular) in Macedonian.
>
> On #django one guy said that he would say "minus ein äpfel" (plural) in
> German.
>
> Those languages in django/conf/locale/ that have defined Plural-Forms
> don't have -1 as a special case. Prehaps because gettext doesn't allow
> negative numbers there[*]. :)
>
> Site from http://www.google.com/search?q=define:plural say that plural
> is "more than one". They don't mention is that absolute or not. :)
>
> So what would you say in your language (even in english) for -1?
In English, the noun would use the plural form if you were using "minus
one" as the number. Incidentally, zero is also a "plural" modifier in
that sense, too ("...we are left with zero apples").
This leads to silliness like "no apples minus one apple leaves minus one
apples".
Regards,
Malcolm
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