NGETTEXT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2025
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NAME

ngettext - translate message and choose plural form  

SYNOPSIS

ngettext [,OPTION/] [,TEXTDOMAIN/] ,MSGID MSGI-PLURAL COUNT/  

DESCRIPTION

The ngettext program translates a natural language message into the user's language, by looking up the translation in a message catalog, and chooses the appropriate plural form, which depends on the number COUNT and the language of the message catalog where the translation was found.

Display native language translation of a textual message whose grammatical form depends on a number.

-d, --domain=,TEXTDOMAIN/

retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

-c, --context=,CONTEXT/

specify context for MSGID

-e

enable expansion of some escape sequences

-E

(ignored for compatibility)

[TEXTDOMAIN]

retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

MSGID MSGID-PLURAL

translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural)

COUNT

choose singular/plural form based on this value

 

Informative output:

-h, --help

display this help and exit

-V, --version

display version information and exit

If the TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not given, the domain is determined from the environment variable TEXTDOMAIN. If the message catalog is not found in the regular directory, another location can be specified with the environment variable TEXTDOMAINDIR. Standard search directory: /usr/share/locale  

AUTHOR

Written by Ulrich Drepper.  

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs in the bug tracker at <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext> or by email to <bug-gettext@gnu.org>.  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 1995-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for ngettext is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ngettext programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info ngettext

should give you access to the complete manual.

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AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO