Plural rules and grammatical number
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description: Most languages don't pluralise like English. Use CLDR plural categories — zero, one, two, few, many, other — via Intl.PluralRules instead of hard-coded 'item' vs 'items' logic.
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date modified: 2026-05-29T18:54:03.000Z
citation: Unicode CLDR — Language Plural Rules
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citation: MDN — Intl.PluralRules
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