NAME
    ngettext - translate message and choose plural form

SYNOPSIS
    ngettext [OPTION] [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT

DESCRIPTION
    The ngettext program translates a natural language message into the
    user's language, by looking up the translation in a message catalog,
    and chooses the appropriate plural form, which depends on the number
    COUNT and the language of the message catalog where the translation was
    found.

    Display native language translation of a textual message whose grammat-
    ical form depends on a number.

    -d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN
    retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

    -e   enable expansion of some escape sequences

    -E   (ignored for compatibility)

    -h, --help
    display this help and exit

    -V, --version
    display version information and exit

    [TEXTDOMAIN]
    retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN

    MSGID MSGID-PLURAL
    translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural)

    COUNT choose singular/plural form based on this value

    If the TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not given, the domain is determined from
    the environment  variable TEXTDOMAIN.  If the message catalog is not
    found in the regular directory, another location can be specified with
    the environment  variable TEXTDOMAINDIR.  Standard search directory:
    /usr/share/locale

AUTHOR
    Written by Ulrich Drepper.

REPORTING BUGS
    Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
    NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
    PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
    The full documentation for ngettext is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
    If the info and ngettext programs are properly installed at your site,
    the command

    info ngettext

    should give you access to the complete manual.