Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

[Hannie Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumoleyn2 zonnet nl>]

Thanks for this further explanation.
Spanish example: el 5 de Mayo - in Dutch we say 5 mei.
Hannie

On 21-01-18 11:23, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> 21.01.2018 08:58 Hannie Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumoleyn2 zonnet nl> wrote:
> > Hello Rafal,
> > Although I do not see Dutch in your list, I was just curious what you
> > mean by genitive and nominative case when speaking of month names.
> TL;DR: AFAIK Dutch language is not affected, nothing will be changed.
>
> A longer explanation: sorry for this confusion, instead of "genitive"
> and "nominative" I should use the long description: "the month name
> in the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
> of a complete date" and "the month name in the form required when
> the month is named by itself". Some languages do not have declension
> and no nominative and genitive case, some languages do have the
> genitive case but do not use it when formatting a date, some languages
> have very simple system and the genitive case is created by adding
> a simple preposition ("de" in Spanish, is it "van" in Dutch?) or
> a simple suffix ("ta" in Finnish), always looking the same. In those
> languages the new feature is not needed.
>
> > could
> > you please give some examples?
> Upper Sorbian: January - "januar", but January 21st - "21 januara"
> Polish: "styczeń", but "21 stycznia"
> Czech: "leden" but "21 ledna" (it must be verified if they really
> need this)
> Croatian: "siječanj" but "21 siječnja".
>
> Catalan: "gener", but "21 de gener" - that looks easy but compare
> with: April: "abril" but "21 d’abril" - impossible to handle with
> the current system.
>
> Finnish: "tammikuu" - but "21 tammikuuta" (always "ta" appended,
> this system is easy and they don't need this new feature).
>
> > I have forwarded this email to ubuntu-translators.
> Thank you, I have never been involved in Ubuntu so didn't think
> about it. This can be very helpful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rafal