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Supports common verbs? #98

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vincentaudebert opened this issue Apr 11, 2018 · 2 comments
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Supports common verbs? #98

vincentaudebert opened this issue Apr 11, 2018 · 2 comments
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@vincentaudebert
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I'm just facing a situation where I use pluralize to pluralize a noun (membership/memberships) but then the following word is a verb (is/are) and I will have to modify it by hands.

What about supporting common verbs like to be to have to do ?
Could look like

pluralize(
      'to be',
      count,
      false
    );

?

Maybe add the extra function in the package? pluralize_verb? or an argument to specify it's a verb?
@blakeembrey
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Possibly related to #25. It's a tricky problem and I thought about it before, but I couldn't think of much reason to have this automated. I would have thought it'd be easier to use an i18n library that switches on numbers, or some other templated approach. Can you share more about how you'd like to see a library automatically work with verbs?

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ahamid commented May 16, 2019 •
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Just ran into a similar case, first tried to see if by any chance it was handled already, but perhaps something naive would suffice for many cases:

const inverse = n => (n - 1) ? 1 : 2
let count = 5
const msg = pluralize('record', count, true)   ' '   pluralize('exist', inverse(count))

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