Plural Forms
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Plural Forms

This is a list of the plural forms, as used by Gettext PO, that are appropriate to each language.

If your language isn't represented - please add it, or if the information is inaccurate or inadequate in some way - please edit it. The Plural information is usually very hard to find and also in many ways hard for a new localiser to understand. So please see this as a repository that can help localisers. Understanding how the Gettext functions use plural forms will help you design a correct plural form.

Note: Launchpad also has plural information about many languages, please add it here if your language is missing.

Note: Mozilla now also uses plural forms. Although they follow a slightly different form, the underlying equations seem to be the same as those used by Gettext.

Note: Unicode CLDR also collects plural information about many languages.

Many of these equations contain the word “or” instead of the correct “||” operator (the wiki table markup uses | so we can't use it). Before you can use these equations, you need to replace the “or” with “||”.

A

ISO	English name	Plurals header in .po files
af	Afrikaans	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
am	Amharic	nplurals = 2; plural=(n > 1)
ar	Arabic notes	nplurals=6; plural= n==0 ? 0 : n==1 ? 1 : n==2 ? 2 : n%100>=3 && n%100<=10 ? 3 : n%100>=11 && n%100<=99 ? 4 : 5;
arn	Mapudungun	nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1)
az	Azerbaijani	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)

B

be	Belarusian	nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10< =4 && (n%100<10 or n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2)
bg	Bulgarian	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
bn	Bengali	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
bo	Tibetan	nplurals=1; plural=0
bs	Bosnian	nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10< =4 && (n%100<10 or n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2)

C

ca	Catalan	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
cs	Czech	nplurals=3; plural=(n==1) ? 0 : (n>=2 && n< =4) ? 1 : 2
csb	Kashubian	nplurals=3; n==1 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10	n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2
cy	Welsh	nplurals=4; plural= (n==1) ? 0 : (n==2) ? 1 : (n != 8 && n != 11) ? 2 : 3

D

da	Danish	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
de	German	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
dz	Dzongkha	nplurals=1; plural=0

E

el	Greek	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
en	English	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
eo	Esperanto	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
es	Spanish	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
es_AR	Argentinean Spanish	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
et	Estonian	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
eu	Basque	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)

F

fa	Persian	nplurals=1; plural=0
fi	Finnish	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
fil	Filipino	nplurals=2; plural=n > 1
fo	Faroese	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
fr	French	nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1)
fur	Friulian	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
fy	Frisian	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)

G

ga	Irish	nplurals=5; plural=n==1 ? 0 : n==2 ? 1 : n<7 ? 2 : n<11 ? 3 : 4
gl	Galician	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
gu	Gujarati	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
gun	Gun	nplurals=1; plural = (n > 1)

H

ha	Hausa	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
he	Hebrew	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
hi	Hindi	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
hy	Armenian	nplurals=1; plural=0
hr	Croatian	nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10< =4 && (n%100<10 or n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2)
hu	Hungarian	nplurals=1; plural=0

I

id	Indonesian	nplurals=1; plural=0
is	Icelandic	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
it	Italian	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)

J

ja	Japanese	nplurals=1; plural=0
jv	Javanese	nplurals=2; plural=n!=0

K

ka	Georgian	nplurals=1; plural=0
km	Khmer	nplurals=1; plural=0
kn	Kannada	nplurals=1; plural=0
ko	Korean	nplurals=1; plural=0
ku	Kurdish	nplurals=2; plural=(n!= 1)
ky	Kyrgyz	nplurals=1; plural=0

L

lb	Letzeburgesch	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
ln	Lingala	nplurals=2; plural=n>1;
lt	Lithuanian	nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && (n%100<10 or n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2)
lv	Latvian	nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n != 0 ? 1 : 2)

M

mk	Macedonian	nplurals=3; plural= n==1 or n%10==1 ? 0 : 1
mg	Malagasy	nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1)
mi	Maori	nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1)
ml	Malayalam	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
ms	Malay	nplurals=1; plural=0
mt	Maltese	nplurals=4; plural=(n==1 ? 0 : n==0 or ( n%100>1 && n%100<11) ? 1 : (n%100>10 && n%100<20 ) ? 2 : 3)
mr	Marathi	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
mn	Mongolian	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)

N

nah	Nahuatl	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
nb	Norwegian Bokmal	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
ne	Nepali	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
nl	Dutch	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
nn	Norwegian Nynorsk	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
no	Norwegian (old code)	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
nso	Northern Sotho	nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1)

O

Oriya

nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)

P

pa	Punjabi	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
pap	Papiamento	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
pl	Polish	nplurals=3; plural=(n==1 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10< =4 && (n%100<10 or n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2)
pt	Portuguese	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
pt_BR	Brazilian Portuguese	nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1)

R

ro	Romanian	nplurals=3; plural=(n==1 ? 0 : (n==0 or (n%100 > 0 && n%100 < 20)) ? 1 : 2);
ru	Russian	nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10< =4 && (n%100<10 or n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2)

S

sco	Scots	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
sk	Slovak	nplurals=3; plural=(n==1) ? 0 : (n>=2 && n<=4) ? 1 : 2
sl	Slovenian	nplurals=4; plural=(n%100==1 ? 0 : n%100==2 ? 1 : n%100==3 or n%100==4 ? 2 : 3)
so	Somali	nplurals=2; plural=n != 1
sq	Albanian	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
sr	Serbian	nplurals=4; plural=n==1? 3 : n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 or n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2
su	Sundanese	nplurals=1; plural=0
sv	Swedish	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)

T

ta	Tamil	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
te	Telugu	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
tg	Tajik	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
ti	Tigrinya	nplurals=2; plural=n > 1
th	Thai	nplurals=1; plural=0
tk	Turkmen	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
tr	Turkish	nplurals=1; plural=0

U

uk	Ukrainian	nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10< =4 && (n%100<10 or n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2)
ur	Urdu	nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)
uz	Uzbek	nplurals=1; plural=0;

zh means all districts and all variants of Chinese, such as zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW and so on.

Note: In rare cases where plural form introduces difference in personal pronoun (such as her vs. they, we vs. I), the plural form is different:

Chinese

nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1)