Setting up Rosetta (plural items handling) for Armenian (hy) translation

[Jordi Mallach]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:44:53PM -0700, Vahagn Poghosyan wrote:
> To form plural in Armenian a suffix "եր" or "ներ" should be appended to the
> word (usually for words ending with consonants and words ending with vowels
> correspondingly).
> 
> book = գիրք
> books = գրքեր (letter "ի" is gone, so forming plurals is pretty complex)
> 
> However in the phrases like "1 book", "2 books", "10 books", "567 books", the
> noun is mentioned always in singular form, so there is only one "plural form".
> E. g.:
> 
> 0   books  =   0 գիրք
> 1   books  =   1 գիրք
> 2   books  =   2 գիրք
> 37 books  = 37 գիրք

So, if I get this straight, you never use anything different to "գիրք"
when using numbers? When do you actually use "գրքեր" then? When it's an
indeterminate number?

In this case, I guess your number of plurals is simply 1.

Jordi
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