Inflection & Transliteration

Wordsmith provides multi-language methods for dealing with noun inflection.

Inflection is available for these locales:

Wordsmith’s inflection and transliteration methods include:

Singulars/Plurals

When used without an explicit quantity, pluralize returns the plural form of the given word.

When used with a quantity, pluralize returns the correct singular or plural form of the given word, for the provided quantity and language.

{{ 'plugin' | pluralize }}

#  plugins

3 {{ 'plugin' | pluralize( qty=3 ) }}

#  "3 plugins"

{{ pluralize('child', qty=1) }}

#  "child"

{{ pluralize('child', qty=100) }}

#  "children"

{{ pluralize('el', locale='es') }} {{ pluralize('hijo', locale='es') }}

#  "los hijos"

Returns the singular form of the given word.

{{ 'matrices' | singularize }}

#  "matrix"

{{ singularize('mamás', locale='es') }}

#  "mamá"

Returns the ordinal suffix that corresponds to the given number.
(Uses English ordinalization rules).

{{ 1 | ordinal }}

#  "st"

{{ 2 | ordinal }}

#  "nd"

{{ 3 | ordinal }}

#  "rd"

{{ 4 | ordinal }}

#  "th"

Returns the ordinalized variant of the given number.
(Uses English ordinalization rules).

{{ 1 | ordinalize }}

#  "1st"

{{ 42 | ordinalize }}

#  "42nd"

{{ 103 | ordinalize }}

#  "103rd"

{{ 4 | ordinalize }}

#  "4th"

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Wordsmith also provides several methods for case modification, including: