Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen <at> gmail.com> writes:
The plural construct is used when it is not clear how
many items will be
available. Consequently there is not much to be done about it. Also the
effect of plural is not the same for every languages. Welsh allows for six
ways of indicating a multitude.
Some of them may be rephrased, and some localizations do not really need them at
all. Foe example, in Hungarian "<number> <noun>" constructs the noun
is always
in singular, so we've been using "{{PLURAL:$1|one|$1}} thingy" because the
automated checks complain if they see no PLURAL, but on hu.wikipedia it could be
replaced with "$1 thingy" without trouble. (I'm not sure there are actually
frequently loading messages which have PLURAL, but it's worth checking.)