NeatNit left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#5878)
> > * nothing instead of "%{count}", probably in languages without indefinite
> > article
>
> That's interesting, do you have examples? I wonder if these languages just
> have a choice between saying "day ago" vs "1 day ago" or whether they
> strictly can't use the number. I understand that "day ago" instead of "a day
> ago" is common, but I haven't found if there are languages where you can't
> use a number 1 with a noun.
This is pretty much the case in Hebrew. Forcing in the 1 is readable but feels
kinda awkward.
Natural: לפני יום = a day ago. There is no "a" in Hebrew.
Still pretty natural: לפני יום אחד = one day ago.
Feels unnatural: לפני יום 1 (with digit 1 instead of the word one) - honestly
it *could* be just a personal thing for me but this feels wrong to read.
Less unnatural to read, but completely unnatural to say: לפני 1 יום - again,
this might be a personal thing for me.
The thing is, for 1 the word order is "ago day [one]", but for any other number
of days it's "ago {number} days". This is why the digit 1 has no natural place.
Incidentally, it seems [[the current Hebrew
translation]](https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Osm:Datetime.distance_in_words_ago.x_days/he)
uses "yesterday" and the word for "the day before yesterday", which you
explicitly say isn't ideal.
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