plural form for haitian creole

Asked by MasterChes

in haitian creole (kreyòl ayisyen), plural forms are very simple : you have just to add the element "yo" just after the word/the sigular form ingeneral.

Some examples :
"tree" is translated "pyebwa"
"trees" is translated "pyebwa yo"
"one object" is translated "yon objè"
"Objects are not conformed" is translated "Objè yo pa konfòm"

"un/Deux/trois bureau(x)" is translated "Yonn/De/twa Biro"

Cordially,
MasterChes

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said :
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Hi, I see you provided this information already, so ignore my request in response to team assignment.

However, this is not clear enough. Basically, we wonder how many different forms do you need to be able to translate sentences like "You've added %d apples", where %d can be replaced with any integer (including zero).

English and many "Western" languages have two: singular, where %d is 1, and plural, for anything else (including zero). Other languages have less (eg. only one form), or more (eg. three or four forms).

From your explanation, I'd guess that you want the English-like rule. I.e. you'd have "0 objè yo", "1 objè", "2 objè yo", "100 objè yo", etc. Is that correct?

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MasterChes (chesmaster) said :
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hello,

This plural form suits.it is correct.

Just a remark :
Translation of "These/My 0/2/3 objects" is translated by : "0/2/3 objè sa/mwen yo"

But it wouldn't be an important error to translate automatically by the first form "%d term yo" when d different from 1
and "1 term" if d=1.

i thank you for your reply; it is OK for me.

just tell me when things are ok for you.

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Best Данило Шеган (danilo) said :
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Thanks for the clarification, I've added this information to Launchpad now.

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MasterChes (chesmaster) said :
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Thanks Данило Шеган, that solved my question.