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This template automatically generates the plural form of any of various words, for the purpose of feeding it to other templates.

Usage

This template uses only one parameter, which is the word to be pluralized.

Examples

• {{theplural|noun}} returns:

  nouns

• {{theplural|suffix}} returns:

  suffixes

Mechanics

This template simply employs the parser function #switch to keep a list of words and their plurals. Consequently, this list should contain all the relevant words before they are pluralized elsewhere.

As an exception, if this template is used to pluralize a word not in the list, the final result is simply the word with an additional letter "s" at the end.

Restrictions

• Since the objective of this template is to be used in other templates, only relevant words and their plurals should be listed here.

  For example, the code {{theplural|suffix}}, in the right code of the right template, is likely to generate "Category:Portuguese suffixes" or other similar texts. On the other hand, the plural of "mess" being "messes" is likely irrelevant for Wiktionary templates, so a code {{theplural|mess}} is not supposed to be used or yield the actual pluralized value.

• Only one plural per word is foreseeably enough.
• Due to the behavior of automatically adding s to any word not listed, it is thereby not necessary to list words whose plural follow this pattern.

  For example, the value "verb" is likely to be used in Wiktionary templates, but {{theplural|verb}} would return "verbs" anyway.

See also

Supplementary templates [edit]

Contents, text, tables:

• caps (returns a particular letter, either in upper or lower cases)
• str len (returns the number of characters of a string)
• theordinal (returns "first" from 1, "second" from 2, etc.)
• theplural (returns "suffixes" from suffix, "verbs" from verb, etc.)
• navbox (generates a collapsible box)
• ! (returns a vertical pipe: |)
• !! (returns two vertical pipes: ||)
• (! (returns a left brace followed by a vertical pipe: {|)
• !) (returns a vertical pipe followed by a right brace: |})
• !- (returns a vertical pipe followed by a dash: |-)

Languages, families and scripts:

• langname (same as above, but also returns a language name from the same language name)
• languagex (returns the language name from any language code)
• langnamex (same as above, but also returns a language name from the same language name)
• langrev (returns the language code of a given language name)
• languageshift (differentiates between "American Sign Language" and "American Sign Language language", among other related languages)
• langfamily (returns the language family from a language code)
• family (returns the family from a subfamily)
• script (returns a script name from a script code)
• scriptrev (returns a script code from a script name)

Pages:

• langprefix (returns the prefix, like conl:, of a language template)
• catlangcode (returns the name of a topical category, notably by never displaying the code en:)
• catlangname (returns the name of a lexical or other category similarly named)
• deftempboiler (generates a definition template)
• edit (generates an "edit" button)