[asterisk-dev] say.conf options (m/f)

Martin Vít vit at lam.cz
Thu May 31 01:39:40 MST 2007


Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> In Portuguese it's even weirder -- only numbers ending with 1 or 2 
> have gender.

In Czech it is similiar.
one can be said "jedna(one) w", "jeden(one) m", "jednu(one) w", 
"jedno(one) IT" and yes we have man/woman/IT :-)
two can be said "dve(two) w", "dva(two) m"

other numbers are like in english

>
> Yaakov Menken escreveu:
>> English is one of few languages in which inanimate objects don't have 
>> a gender. I understand German is another. Most languages, including 
>> the Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.), 
>> Arabic, and Hebrew, will need multiple ways to say numbers.
>>
>> Yaakov Menken
>>
>> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:09:07AM -0400, Paul wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is this like in Spanish we have "primero" and "primera" whereas in
>>>> English we only have "first"?
>>>>
>>>> Also in Spanish we have "un", "uno" and "una" for English "a" or 
>>>> "one".
>>>> Phrases like "a son", "one son", "a daughter", "one daughter" are
>>>> handled differently. Is this the case for Hebrew?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>
>
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