On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:58:46AM +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > In your mother tongue, in the sentence > > “3 hours, 2 minutes remain(s)” > > do you decide which verb form (i.e. plural form) to use for “remain” > based on > > A. the SUM of hours and minutes > B. ONLY the hours > C. ONLY the minutes? > For Arabic, the equivalent to "remain" or "left" here is a verb not a noun and has no plural form. I cannot think of another example with a plural the depend on two quantities. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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