no, no you may not

😄

(joking)

Ignoring the numerals themselves, because that's a whole other beast

The first thing is that numbers below an arbitrary point - usually about 10, but it changes according to personal preference and to some extent context - use the singular form after the numeral, and numbers bigger than that use the plural form with an extra word inserted

Then there's the fact that certain numbers cause mutations to the initial letters of the words that follow

1 causes soft mutation (= lenition) to most, but not all, feminine nouns 2 causes soft mutation to all nouns (the numeral itself also has masculine and feminine forms, but that's not relevant here) 3 causes aspirate mutation (= spirantisation) to masculine nouns 6 causes aspirate mutation to all nouns 10 causes nasal mutation (= weird) to some nouns to do with time, sometimes Depending on whether you use the decimal or vigesimal system, numbers above 10 (if you use them instead of the plural form with the extra word) cause varying mutations because the noun is said at a different point in the word than you might expect

Example with ci (dog) and cath (cat): 1 ci, 1 gath 2 gi, 2 gath 3 chi, 3 cath 4 ci, 4 cath 5 ci, 5 cath 6 chi, 6 chath 7 ci, 7 cath 8 ci, 8 cath 9 ci, 9 cath 10 ci, 10 cath 11 ci, 11 gath or 11 o gŵn, 11 o gathod 12 gi, 12 gath or 12 ci, 12 cath or 12 o gŵn, 12 o gathod

Etc

"Plural-Forms: nplurals=4; plural=((n==1)?(0):((n==2)?(1):(((n!=8)&&(n!=11))?(2):3)));\n"

..... pffft

thats welsh... not as bad as polish, but not far off, and just as "odd" to me

Also, 8, 9 and I think 7 can also do the random nasal mutation of time words too, I think

Ordinals are worse

Hmmm ... you have convinced me that Wales should be under English rule.

It is

i was about to say, oh, has there finally been a revolution?

Also, this is a language without case inflections, so

is @clever-yak-82528 Welsh ?

Nope

at least we're not actively trying to kill Welsh as a language any more

Combined with trying to get ŵ to display properly, doing interfaces in Welsh is irritating

based on Jhyn's explanation, maybe its time to start again 😄

It's also an echo language, so dialogue boxes with 'yes' and 'no' don't really work

oh?

They suffered through 400 years of it already

To answer a question, you repeat the main verb

it's that 🐬

Rather than there being words for yes and no

There are words for yes and no, but they're used in a different context

(when the verb isn't the emphasised word in the sentence)