# I18n and count question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i18n-and-count-question/169047>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 28, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i18n-and-count-question/169047 "2009-05-28T19:34:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i18n-and-count-question/169047/1 "2009-05-28T19:34:16Z")

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Hi.

What is the proper way to handle situations where you need  
pluralization with and without adding the count?

The best I could think of is to write it twice:

item:  
one: ‘item’  
other: ‘items’

c\_item:  
one: ‘one item’  
other: ‘{{count}} items’

It’s not very DRY.

I guess there should be a better way of doing. How do you handle this  
situation?

–  
M.