Axel Hecht <
l10n@...> wrote:
> Rimas Kudelis wrote:
>> Do you intend to support Grammatical cases [1] in any way? If yes,
>> then how do you see it?..
>
> Yes, it works pretty much like the gender example in
>
http://people.mozilla.com/~axel/l20n/js-l20n/sample-01.html.
The example seems to show how to change the surrounding sentence to
match the gender of a replacement word. The replacement determines the
gender, and the sentence has to adapt.
Case works the other way round: the structure of the sentence determines
the case a replacement word must take, and the spelling of the word
changes depending on case it needs to take to fit into a given sentence.
Often both grammatical categories (three actually - there's also number)
work together and require changing both the sentence and replacement
word for everything to agree.
Consider also this situation in Russian:
1 file = 1 ÆÁÊÌ
4 files = 4 ÆÁÊÌÁ
5 files = 5 ÆÁÊÌÏ×
21 file = 21 ÆÁÊÌ
The word "ÆÁÊÌ" (file) is in nominative singular in the first line,
genitive singular in the second line (yes, singular, even though there
are four of them), genitive plural in the third line, and nominative
singular again in the last line.
Igor Tandetnik
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