Plural in Javanese language

Jordi Mallach jordi at canonical.com
Tue Aug 29 17:32:37 BST 2006


Hi Chris,

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:18:11AM -0700, chris mastanto wrote:
> Generally, plural in Javanese can be formed by writing the noun(s)
> twice. For example: kids will be translated as bocah-bocah (kid =
> bocah). Please note that "many kids" will be translated as "akeh
> bocah" and not "akeh bocah-bocah". I hope this helps.

So, do you have:
-1 bocah
0 bocah
1 bocah
2 bocah-bocah
1000 bocah-bocah?

or is 0 a plural as well?

Jordi
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