On 3/20/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > In Telugu language its singular ofcourse :)
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