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<li>nothing instead of "%{count}", probably in languages without indefinite article</li>
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<p dir="auto">That's interesting, do you have examples? I wonder if these languages just have a choice between saying "day ago" vs "1 day ago" or whether they strictly can't use the number. I understand that "day ago" instead of "a day ago" is common, but I haven't found if there are languages where you can't use a number 1 with a noun.</p>
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<p dir="auto">This is pretty much the case in Hebrew. Forcing in the 1 is readable but feels kinda awkward.</p>
<p dir="auto">Natural: לפני יום = a day ago. There is no "a" in Hebrew.</p>
<p dir="auto">Still pretty natural: לפני יום אחד = one day ago.</p>
<p dir="auto">Feels unnatural: לפני יום 1 (with digit 1 instead of the word one) - honestly it <em>could</em> be just a personal thing for me but this feels wrong to read.</p>
<p dir="auto">Less unnatural to read, but completely unnatural to say: לפני 1 יום - again, this might be a personal thing for me.</p>
<p dir="auto">The thing is, for 1 the word order is "ago day [one]", but for any other number of days it's "ago {number} days". This is why the digit 1 has no natural place.</p>
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<li>nothing instead of "%{count}", probably in languages without indefinite article</li>
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<p dir="auto">That's interesting, do you have examples? I wonder if these languages just have a choice between saying "day ago" vs "1 day ago" or whether they strictly can't use the number. I understand that "day ago" instead of "a day ago" is common, but I haven't found if there are languages where you can't use a number 1 with a noun.</p>
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<p dir="auto">This is pretty much the case in Hebrew. Forcing in the 1 is readable but feels kinda awkward.</p>
<p dir="auto">Natural: לפני יום = a day ago. There is no "a" in Hebrew.</p>
<p dir="auto">Still pretty natural: לפני יום אחד = one day ago.</p>
<p dir="auto">Feels unnatural: לפני יום 1 (with digit 1 instead of the word one) - honestly it <em>could</em> be just a personal thing for me but this feels wrong to read.</p>
<p dir="auto">Less unnatural to read, but completely unnatural to say: לפני 1 יום - again, this might be a personal thing for me.</p>
<p dir="auto">The thing is, for 1 the word order is "ago day [one]", but for any other number of days it's "ago {number} days". This is why the digit 1 has no natural place.</p>
<p dir="auto">Incidentally, it seems <a href="https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Osm:Datetime.distance_in_words_ago.x_days/he" rel="nofollow">[the current Hebrew translation]</a> uses "yesterday" and the word for "the day before yesterday", which you explicitly say isn't ideal.</p>
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