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Why not?

Capability to check if word is singular or plural

assertTrue(English.isSingular("word"));
assertFalse(English.isPlural("word"));

assertFalse(English.isSingular("words"));
assertTrue(English.isPlural("words"));

Would be interesting to have the capability to transform plurals to singular:

System.out.println(English.singular("words")); // == "word"

System.out.println(English.singular("words", 1)); // == "word"
System.out.println(English.singular("words", 2)); // == "words"

Thank you for working on this challenging problem! I found some uppercase words that are pluralized to lowercase. Instead, I expect a singular like "Foot" would pluralize to "Feet" and not to "feet". Here is a table of some words that preserve case and others that do not.

To demonstrate, I have attached a small tar-ball containing a command line program to invoke org.atteo.evo.inflector.English.plural("arg") for arbitrary arguments (words): evo-inflector-main.tar.gz

The latest release is more than two years old and a couple of fixes have piled up but can't be used as there's no official release containing those.

assertThat(English.plural("todo"), is("todos"));

This one fails as the value returned is todoes.

It could be great to have this as an online tool!

Version 1.1 is compiled against Java 7, but after a quick look at the source code I don't think this is necessary.

I'm using 1.0.1 in a project that must be able to run on Java 6, so I'm not able to upgrade.

I am thinking about using this to a project of mine. Should I consider it as a viable option?

Hi,
if I call English.plural("") I get "s". This maybe is related to this line:
categoryRule(CATEGORY_MAN_MANS, "", "s");

BR,
Kai

What do you say? Is it easy to do?

Thanks!

First off, thank you for this rather handy little library, it's made my code much prettier. I use evo-infector, and other similar libraries, with a ternary operator . A common use case might be:

String comments = (amount == 1) ? "comment" : English.plural("comment");

With evo-inflector, I created a helper overloaded method which neatens up my application code::

public plural(String word, int n) {
    return (n == 1) ? word : inflector.getPlural("comment");
}
...

String.format("%d %s commented.", amount, plural("person", amount));

Is this something that could be added to evo-inflector? I've added the method on my local copy so I will be happy to send a pull request if that makes it easier.

What license is evo-inflector?

Can we have a license file / declaration somewhere prominent?

The plural form for word "is" is "ises" instead of "are".

If the input is plural already, it fails to recognize it and returns a wrong word. Example for "Client" it returns "Clients" but for "Clients" it returns "Clientses".

this library is almost what I need although I wish it could also return the singular versions of plural words. Shouldn't be too hard. I did find an issue though. When passed a word that is already plural, it tries to pluralize it instead of just returning the same string. This is a problem as I'm handling user input and will have no idea if the users have typed in singular or plural to start with.

Ideally I'd want a method that returns a plural if a singular has been input and a singular if a plural has been input.

btw, on the atteo.org page the xml block for maven needs editing, groupid should have an uppercase 'I'. it will cause maven to fail.

The call English.plural("loaf") returns the String loafs. It should be loaves.