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Re: gettext and plurals

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Subject: Re: gettext and plurals
From: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:25:16 +0330 (IRT)
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Bruno Haible wrote:

> because three strings would be needed for these languages. (Can anyone
> fluent in one of these languages give more details?)

I can understand arabic and know its grammar. It surely needs three words
for singular, dual, and plural. For example, "a book" is "kitAbun", "two
books" is "kitAbAni", and "books" is "kutubun".

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