Translation request - add feminine, masculine, and neuter options

[Geras]

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http://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php/topic/18302-translation-request-add-feminine-masculine-and-neuter-options/

 

Dear Devs,

 

I would like to kindly ask you to add feminine, masculine, and neuter options to the Tooltip.txt file entries, and also for a way to distinguish item gender in Items.txt file.

 

I am aware that English language lacks that diversification but a vast majority of other languages do not. That leads to translation imperfection where, in case of Polish language, an axe should be a 'she', or a baseball bat a 'he', but where everything is an 'it'.

 

It's especially visible with prefixes:

 

Broken

Fresh

Rotten

Frozen

Burnt

Cooked

Uncooked

 

and:

 

Tooltip_item_TwoHandWeapon (sledgehammer and baseball bat are masculine, axe is feminine)

 

I would suggest to add a gender defining variable, i.e.:

 

Axe{f}

Orange{n}

 

and that would take from the gender prefix database:

 

(Broken)

Zepsuty{m}

Zepsuta{f}

Zepsute{n}

 

(Fresh)

Świeży{m}

Świeża{f}

Świeże{n}

 

etc. etc.

 

Of course, languages without gender nouns would just not use gender variables.

 

Thank you.

[LeoIvanov]

Already posted regarding these options within the topic itself, but will also say it here:

 

Each language should be able to determine their own noun genders, because they seem to differ from each other.

 

In Polish:
Axe {f}

Orange {n}

 

In Russian:

Axe {m}

Orange {m}

[Ontogenesis]

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