NAME

       ngettext - translate message and choose plural form

SYNOPSIS

       ngettext [OPTION] [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT

DESCRIPTION

       The  ngettext  program  translates a natural language message into the user's language, by
       looking up the translation in a message catalog, and chooses the appropriate plural  form,
       which  depends  on  the  number  COUNT  and  the language of the message catalog where the
       translation was found.

       Display native language translation of a textual message whose grammatical form depends on
       a number.

       -d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN
              retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

       -e     enable expansion of some escape sequences

       -E     (ignored for compatibility)

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -V, --version
              display version information and exit

       [TEXTDOMAIN]
              retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

       MSGID MSGID-PLURAL
              translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural)

       COUNT  choose singular/plural form based on this value

       If  the  TEXTDOMAIN  parameter is not given, the domain is determined from the environment
       variable TEXTDOMAIN.  If the message catalog  is  not  found  in  the  regular  directory,
       another  location  can be specified with the environment variable TEXTDOMAINDIR.  Standard
       search directory: /usr/share/locale

AUTHOR

       Written by Ulrich Drepper.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+:  GNU  GPL
       version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
       This  is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY,
       to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for ngettext is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If  the  info  and
       ngettext programs are properly installed at your site, the command

              info ngettext

       should give you access to the complete manual.