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The make-plural npm package is a utility for handling pluralization rules in various languages. It allows developers to determine the correct plural form of a word based on a given number, which is particularly useful for internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) tasks.
Determine Plural Form
This feature allows you to determine the plural form of a word in a specified language based on a given number. In this example, the plural form for English ('en') is determined for the numbers 1 and 2.
const makePlural = require('make-plural');
const plural = makePlural('en');
console.log(plural(1)); // 'one'
console.log(plural(2)); // 'other'
Support for Multiple Languages
This feature demonstrates the package's support for multiple languages. It shows how to determine the plural form for both English and French.
const makePlural = require('make-plural');
const pluralEn = makePlural('en');
const pluralFr = makePlural('fr');
console.log(pluralEn(1)); // 'one'
console.log(pluralEn(2)); // 'other'
console.log(pluralFr(1)); // 'one'
console.log(pluralFr(2)); // 'other'
Custom Plural Rules
This feature allows you to define custom pluralization rules. In this example, custom rules are provided to determine the plural form.
const makePlural = require('make-plural');
const customRules = {
one: 'n == 1',
other: 'true'
};
const pluralCustom = makePlural(customRules);
console.log(pluralCustom(1)); // 'one'
console.log(pluralCustom(2)); // 'other'
The pluralize package provides simple pluralization and singularization of English words. It is less comprehensive than make-plural as it primarily focuses on English and does not support custom rules or multiple languages.
i18next is a powerful internationalization framework that supports pluralization among many other features. It is more comprehensive than make-plural, offering a full suite of i18n tools, but it may be overkill if you only need pluralization.
The messageformat package provides support for handling complex message formatting, including pluralization, gender, and other language-specific rules. It is more feature-rich compared to make-plural, but also more complex to use.
Make-plural is a JavaScript module that translates Unicode CLDR pluralization
rules to JavaScript functions. It includes both a live parser
(make-plural.js
) as well as the generated output for the latest edition of the
CLDR (plurals.js
); the latter is just over 2kB in size when minified &
gzipped and covers 199 languages, so it's probably what you want unless you
really know what you're doing.
Make-plural is written in ECMAScript 6 and transpiled using Babel and Browserify to CommonJS and AMD and ES6 module formats, as well as being suitable for use in browser environments.
npm install make-plural
or
bower install make-plural
or
git clone https://github.com/eemeli/make-plural.js.git
cd make-plural.js
npm install
make all
or download the latest release from here
plurals.js
contains an UMD module that can be included with node's require
or AMD's define
. In a browser environment, it will populate a global object
plurals
. Said module contains 199 functions (one per language),
each taking as a first parameter the value to be classified (either a number or
a string), and as an optional second parameter, a boolean that if true, applies
ordinal rather than cardinal rules.
pluralCategories.js
has a similar structure to plurals.js
, but contains an
array of the pluralization categories the cardinal and ordinal rules each
language's pluralization function may output.
If your language isn't directly included in either of the above, try removing
any trailing parts that are separated from the stem by -
or _
.
> plurals = require('make-plural/plurals')
{ af: [Function],
ak: [Function],
am: [Function],
// snip 193 lines...
yo: [Function],
zh: [Function],
zu: [Function] }
> plurals.en(1) // 1st param is the value
'one'
> plurals.en(2)
'other'
> plurals.en(2, true) // 2nd param, if true-ish, is for ordinal rules
'two'
> console.log(plurals.en.toString())
function (n, ord) {
var s = String(n).split('.'), v0 = !s[1], t0 = Number(s[0]) == n,
n10 = t0 && s[0].slice(-1), n100 = t0 && s[0].slice(-2);
if (ord) return (n10 == 1 && n100 != 11) ? 'one'
: (n10 == 2 && n100 != 12) ? 'two'
: (n10 == 3 && n100 != 13) ? 'few'
: 'other';
return (n == 1 && v0) ? 'one' : 'other';
}
> pluralCategories = require('make-plural/pluralCategories')
{ af: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
ak: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
am: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
ar:
{ cardinal: [ 'zero', 'one', 'two', 'few', 'many', 'other' ],
ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
// snip 255 lines...
zh: { cardinal: [ 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
zu: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] } }
<script src="path/to/make-plural/plurals.js"></script>
<script>
var ru = plurals.ru
console.log('1: ' + plurals.ru(1) + ', 3.0: ' + plurals.ru(3.0) +
', "1.0": ' + plurals.ru('1.0') + ', "0": ' + plurals.ru('0'));
console.log(plurals.ru.toString());
</script>
With outputs:
1: one, 3.0: few, "1.0": other, "0": many
function(n, ord) {
var s = String(n).split('.'), i = s[0], v0 = !s[1], i10 = i.slice(-1),
i100 = i.slice(-2);
if (ord) return 'other';
return (v0 && i10 == 1 && i100 != 11) ? 'one'
: (v0 && (i10 >= 2 && i10 <= 4) && (i100 < 12
|| i100 > 14)) ? 'few'
: (v0 && i10 == 0 || v0 && (i10 >= 5 && i10 <= 9)
|| v0 && (i100 >= 11 && i100 <= 14)) ? 'many'
: 'other';
}
Note that with plurals.min.js
, the stringified function would be rendered as:
function (e,t){var r=String(e).split("."),n=r[0],o=!r[1],c=n.slice(-1),
i=n.slice(-2);return t?"other":o&&1==c&&11!=i?"one":o&&c>=2&&4>=c&&(12>i||i>14)?
"few":o&&0==c||o&&c>=5&&9>=c||o&&i>=11&&14>=i?"many":"other"}
make-plural.js
Loads CLDR rules from one or more cldr
variables, each of which must be an
object formatted like this.
No plural data is included by default, so you'll need to call this at least
once, or otherwise fill the MakePlural.rules
object.
The default CLDR rules are included in make-plural, and may be loaded as seen in the examples below.
Returns a function that takes an argument n
and returns its plural category
for the given locale lc
.
The returned function has an overloaded toString(name)
method that may be
used to generate a clean string representation of the function, with an
optional name name
.
The optional second parameter may contain the following boolean members:
cardinals
— if true, rules for cardinal values (1 day, 2 days, etc.) are
includedordinals
— if true, rules for ordinal values (1st, 2nd, etc.) are includedIf both cardinals
and ordinals
are true, the returned function takes a
second parameter ord
. Then, if ord
is true, the function will return the
ordinal rather than cardinal category applicable to n
in locale lc
.
If the second parameter is undefined, the values are taken from
MakePlural.cardinals
(default true
) and MakePlural.ordinals
(default
false
).
> MakePlural = require('make-plural/make-plural').load(
... require('make-plural/data/plurals.json'),
... require('make-plural/data/ordinals.json'))
{ [Function: MakePlural]
cardinals: true,
ordinals: false,
rules:
{ cardinal:
{ af: [Object],
ak: [Object],
am: [Object],
// snip 193 lines...
yo: [Object],
zh: [Object],
zu: [Object] },
ordinal:
{ af: [Object],
am: [Object],
ar: [Object],
// snip 78 lines...
vi: [Object],
zh: [Object],
zu: [Object] } } }
> sk = new MakePlural('sk') // Note: not including ordinals by default
{ [Function]
_obj:
{ lc: 'sk',
cardinals: true,
ordinals: false,
categories: { cardinal: [Object], ordinal: [] },
parser: { v0: 1, i: 1 },
tests: { obj: [Circular], ordinal: {}, cardinal: [Object] },
fn: [Circular] },
categories: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'few', 'many', 'other' ], ordinal: [] },
test: [Function],
toString: [Function] }
> sk(1)
'one'
> sk(3.0)
'few'
> sk('1.0')
'many'
> sk('0')
'other'
> console.log(sk.toString())
function(n) {
var s = String(n).split('.'), i = s[0], v0 = !s[1];
return (i == 1 && v0 ) ? 'one'
: ((i >= 2 && i <= 4) && v0 ) ? 'few'
: (!v0 ) ? 'many'
: 'other';
}
make-plural.js
may also be used in browser environments; see test/index.html
for an example of its use.
$ ./bin/make-plural > plurals.js
$ ./bin/make-plural fr
function fr(n, ord) {
if (ord) return (n == 1) ? 'one' : 'other';
return (n >= 0 && n < 2) ? 'one' : 'other';
}
$ ./bin/make-plural --locale fr --value 1.5
one
$ ./bin/make-plural 1.5 -l fr --ordinal
other
Please see the source of src/index.js
for more details.
Make-plural has no required runtime dependencies. CLDR plural rule data is included in JSON format; make-plural supports the LDML Language Plural Rules as used in CLDR release 24 and later.
The CLI binary bin/make-plural
does use minimist as an argument parser, but
that is not required for any other use.
Using MakePlural.load()
, you may make use of external sources of CLDR data.
For example, the following works when using together with cldr-data:
> cldr = require('cldr-data');
> MakePlural = require('make-plural/make-plural').load(
cldr('supplemental/plurals'),
cldr('supplemental/ordinals')
);
> en = new MakePlural('en');
> en(3, true)
'few'
FAQs
Unicode CLDR pluralization rules as JavaScript functions
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