There should be a parameter or a matching template that starts the definition with "Irregular plural...". I think this is important. — Hippietrail 02:52, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Rod (A. Smith) 08:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Is the plural of template deprecated? If so, maybe that should be mentioned here, to prevent (more) unwanted edits.
On User talk:BD2412#plural_of TheDaveRoss advises to put brackets around the singular term, when using the plural of template.
If this is a valid advice - though apparently not applied in most cases - then these brackets should be added to the template.
— This unsigned comment was added by 84.197.168.185 (talk).
I see both {{plural of|word}} and {{plural of|]}} is used, but what is preferred and what should not be used? SPQRobin 22:24, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't know why I didn't notice sooner, but an error was introduced when the lang= parameter was added: all the Category:English nouns memberships were removed at that time. I'm correcting it back, to assume English, and always add a category, correctly. Note that Special:Statistics will show an enormously high Job queue, for a while. When it gets to zero, the categories should be complete. --Connel MacKenzie 11:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Also note that the >17,000 items on the job queue haven't started yet (but will in a few minutes, when de.wikipedia gives up its job-queue timeslot.) --Connel MacKenzie 11:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
How do I use this if I want to introduce the plural feminine form of an adjectiv? Do I just say the plural form of the feminine singular (which is a form of the adjectiv as well), as I did in obscene, or does the format include a parameter for it too? Skepsis 00:54, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Any possibility to include a part of speech parameter? Because some languages have plurals for other parts of speeds such as adjectives and pronouns. For example, pos=adjective could modify ] to ]. Categorization of plurals would be more sensible.--Jyril 18:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
When adding german plurals i noticed that some of them give direct links to the english translation and some do not. Given that we would like to see the translations on all pages, could that be included in the template, so that i could insert {{plural of|]|lang=German|trans=chickens}} on Hühner f.e.? When adding it manually the question is also in which place the translation should be inserted, if you compare Planeten, Blumen & Häuser you already have 3 different ways and you will eventually find more in the Category:German plurals. Putting it in the template could straighten that out,too. Mutante 09:51, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
{{form of}}
. We should probably discuss this in WT:GP to solicit feedback on whether to use a positional parameter or the named parameter (probably {{{gloss}}}). (Note that for languages that use a non-Latin script, a transliteration parameter may also be needed. Similarly, for Latin and Old English, an alternate form parameter is needed. Finally, the resulting link should probably be to a language-specific section, using a {{{lang}}} parameter with the language's ISO code. To accomodate all of those requirements, a positional gloss parameter may be confusing.) Rod (A. Smith) 17:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)When adding non-english words with this template, in my case i want to add german plurals, people on IRC all agreed we also want the link to the english translation right on the page. So could that be added as a parameter to the template? Example: {{plural of|Katze|lang=German|cats}} added to the page Katzen creates "German..plural of Katze "cats"". 11:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
{{term}}
. Rod (A. Smith) 01:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)Also, could the PAGETITLE line that is (almost?) always right above the {{plural of|.. line be included in the template? That would save time when always copy/pasting the pagename itself in between ''' ''' in the page body manually and adding plural pages would be even quicker.. Actually inserting {{plural of|]|lang=German|trans=chickens}} could be enough to create a complete page, the ==German== heading, PAGETITLE , the "plural of" sentence, the translation and the category. Mutante 09:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Could this functionality be added to the template? So if Template:lang:{{{lang}}} or simply Template:{{{lang}}} exists, it expands it and uses it in categorization, otherwise it assumes that the {{{lang}}} is fully expanded language name (as it is now).
Most other templates use lang= parameter with ISO code, and some contributors tend to get confused with this dual logic. --Ivan Štambuk 21:50, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
How do I indicate gender with this template? There doesn't seem to be any coding for it. 70.51.8.110 05:11, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
{{m}}
, {{f}}
, {{c}}
, {{n}}
e.g.'''plurals''' {{m}} # {{plural of|]}}
Currently all Spanish plurals are grouped together into Category:Spanish plurals. This lumps all adjectives in with nouns. A new category is Category:Spanish plural nouns. We need a way for this template (plural of) to not include any categories (like nodot does), because Template:es-noun-pl already puts it into the correct category. Is this possible? Nadando 03:24, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
{{plural of|XXXX|lang=es|pos=noun}}
produces the category Category:Spanish plural nouns. See it at work in pies. I'll wait a bit to put this parameter into wider play, just in case anyone objects to the implementation. Besides Spanish, some other languages should add this parameter to their invocations (such as French). That way there's no need to hand-categorize. --Bequw → ¢ • τ 07:52, 26 July 2008 (UTC){{feminine of}}
, {{masculine plural of}}
and {{feminine plural of}}
currently don't categorize either. I also hadn't seen {{es-noun-pl}}
or {{es-adj-pl}}
and any other automatic categorizations could be done using {{infl}}
). I'll take out the POS option leaving the nocat option. --Bequw → ¢ • τ 01:11, 27 July 2008 (UTC)Would it be possible for this template to display Persian words with the Persian fonts by specifying 'lang=fa|sc=fa-Arab' as with the {{wikipedia}}
template (example: اسب)? At the moment Persian plurals are all written out without a template (example: انوار). Pistachio 23:54, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
For those who may not know: could "plural" be wikified to plural#Adjective ?
Thanks in advance,
--Jerome Potts 08:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
It seems that hundreds of uses of this template (for example, all Hebrew plurals) use the "sc" perimeter to change the font, but in fact, the sc perimeter does not do anything. Any particular reason for this, or was this just a mistake? --Yair rand 02:08, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
{{plural of|foo|lang=es}} categorizes at category:Spanish plurals, which is marked as "should be empty, please populate Category:Spanish noun forms instead". Template:plural of can be made to do so: It seems it would require, in place of ]
, {{#switch:{{langname|{{{lang|English}}}}}|Spanish=]|]}}
to start with, with further language-specific tweaking as needed. Any objections?—msh210℠ 17:13, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
{{infl}}
is smart enough to be able to create categories based on the information we give it. Though, perhaps the best solution for some of the Romance languages, especially Spanish, is to get away from using {{infl}}
and integrate plural forms into the noun and adjective inflection templates (or make new plural inflection templates), since then we can control the categories for those specific languages directly from the templates, and the entries will also be able to show the lemma and other inflected forms in the inflection line (which {{infl}}
doesn't do). Dominic·t 05:04, 17 October 2010 (UTC)Can we agree to allow {{{sort}}} for the category <langname> plurals? I would do it now myself as 'uncontroversial' but it doesn't use a hard category, it uses the template {{categorize}}
which is harder to use. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:52, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
1) The template itself was oddly categorized among plural nouns for English, Old English, and Spanish. So I have added "nocat=1" to all sample displays of its documentation subpage: this fixed all but one last categorization, because the template code itself performs a default, unconditional Category:English plurals. I think this should be fixed by surrounding the template code's auto-cat section with "includeonly" tags.
2) All other similar templates have a cap and a trailing period. I don't see why this one shouldn't, too. 62.147.24.196 13:04, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
For English definitions, how does one get this capitalized to show "Plural of"? Better yet, is there a way to default to capitalization when the language is English for all form of templates? DAVilla 07:49, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Could somebody capitalize “plural”? Other templates, such as {{alternative spelling of}}
, have the first word capitalized. Interqwark talk contribs 13:43, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
@Rua You removed it from the documentation (Special:Diff/24232101; also its related categories: Special:Diff/25189284, Special:Diff/33355852) in 2014. What does it do (and why is it added to plural forms created using WT:ACCEL)? J3133 (talk) 09:49, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Please document that the template cannot yet target a specific part of speech (type) reliably. I have done such targeting in this modification, but for all languages other than English, it is too unreliable as anchors are automatically generated and adding or removing other languages in the entry would automatically change the target. Even for English (which should remain the first language), the anchor could vary. --Chealer (talk) 17:30, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Please fix/clarify the documentation for senseid. Instead of:
A sense id for the term, which links to anchors on the page set by the
{{senseid}}
template.
...this could read:
The identifier for a specific sense for the term, which points the link to a precise anchor set by using the
{{senseid}}
template on the singular entry (target page).
I also recommend to move senseid higher in the list of parameters given its importance. Chealer (talk) 11:40, 13 August 2023 (UTC)