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Language specific pluralization for de-de
Version
v5.24.0
Operating System
all
Browser
all
What steps will reproduce the bug?
Set-Up a new Webiny. Choose the locale "de-DE"
Create a model - let's say one called "Artikel" (German for article) and one "Aufgabe" (German for To-Do)
What is the expected behavior?
I expect to see "Artikel" and "Aufgaben" in the admin ui.
What do you see instead?
I see "Artikels" and "Aufgabes" in the admin ui.
Additional information
The eight possible plural endings in de-de language
plural ending Example (singular -> plural) -e Tisch -> Tische -"e (with umlaut) Hand -> Hände -(e)n Tante -> Tanten -er Kind -> Kinder "er (with Umlaut) Haus -> Häuser Ø (null ending) Tiger -> Tiger -"Ø (with umlaut) Apfel -> Äpfel -s Auto -> Autos
There's a good sum of this here, it is in German language, but the table on the last page sums it up pretty well and will lead to correct results in 95% of the cases (the document was made to teach imigrants the German language) http://www.atesman.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Plural-Q1-Info.pdf
Possible solution
Either implement no plural ending at all (at least in the admin panel), or correct them per language.
Quick fix idea
As an admin I could live with seeing the technical used plural s, but I at least want to be able to coinfigure it for editors/authors in a way they don't see the wrong "s" ending. The home turf of these people is language, they will instantly think low of a system making such an obvious mistake, but they won't mind seeing singular everywhere.
Thanks! A very important issue 👍
Another solution brought up by @brunozoric is to simply use 2 inputs, 1 for singular, and 1 for plural forms. I personally saw this approach in one of the headless CMS-es out there, can't remember which one.
Another solution brought up by @brunozoric is to simply use 2 inputs, 1 for singular, and 1 for plural forms. I personally saw this approach in one of the headless CMS-es out there, can't remember which one.
I definitely have used that function in the Wordpress internationalisation tool, WPML (https://wpml.org). I could spin up an example if that's helpful?
I'm sure I saw it in some other system, not Wordpress. Thanks @endymion1818 no need to spend time on that, it's enough to know that it's not a wild idea, but is actually used in other systems out there.
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This one is about to get closed and I can't remove the label. A pity. 😭