Re: plural forms for counting “composed” numbers: “3 hours, 2 minutes remain(s)”?

[F Wolff <friedel translate org za>]

On Vr, 2008-10-03 at 00:58 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Feel free to skim over this message, but just want to know where you can
> help as a translator with a non-english mother tongue. Your feedback is
> important for solving the Nautilus translation bug 551222 [1].
> 
> 1. Where YOU can help us
> ========================
> 
> 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?

...

Would it perhaps make it easier to just say:
"Time remaining: %s"
or is this against some HIG / policy?

Keep well
Friedel

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