[Shotwell] Slovenian translation for Shotwell

[Adam Dingle]

On 06/01/2010 11:13 PM, Andrej Znidarsic wrote:
> I would ask a question about the .pot files, since i have a problem with
> some of the strings. In slovenian language we have different plural forms
> for 1 object, 2 objects, 3 or 4 objects and 5 and more objects.
>
> I have a problem with strings like:
>   One original photo could not be adjusted. / The following original photos
> could not be adjusted.
>
> In slovenian it possible to translate this string in 3 form, but the 4th
> form of plural (5 or moje objects) requires a number inside the string
> otherwise it doesn't sound right and cannot be translated properly.
>
> So for the 4 form of plural you can translate it in 2 ways (now obviously it
> sounds completely different in slovenian, but just ot show the sentance
> form):
>
> a) The following %d original photos could not be adjusted.
> b) It is not possible to adjust the following %d photos. (of course
> everything
>
> Either way, it needs a %d. Is that possible to fix. There are about 10
> strings like that in shotwell. It would be greatly appriciated if you could
> fix this for me.
>    

I don't speak Slovenian, but is there really no way to express a plural 
when there is no number involved?  For example, suppose that you were 
asked to translate this sentence:

    The dogs ran to the house.

Would you really need to know how many dogs there were?  What if you 
didn't?  Does the sentence become untranslatable?

I do speak Czech, which also uses different cases for different 
numbers.  For example, in Czech

1 pes = 1 dog (nominative case)
2 psi = 2 dogs (nominative plural case)
3 psi = 3 dogs
4 psi = 4 dogs
5 psů = 5 dogs (genitive plural case)

But I need to translate "The dogs ran" without a number, I can simply 
say "Psi běželi" using the nominative plural.  And, similarly, in our 
Czech translation of "The following original photos could not be 
adjusted", the translator used the nominative plural case which is just 
fine.

But if Slovenian is somehow different from the other Slavic languages 
we've seen so far and we absolutely need to include a number in each 
string that talks about photos, perhaps we can do that.

adam