On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:58:46AM +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> In your mother tongue, in the sentence
> 
> “3 hours, 2 minutes remain(s)”
> 
> do you decide which verb form (i.e. plural form) to use for “remain”
> based on
> 
> A. the SUM of hours and minutes
> B. ONLY the hours
> C. ONLY the minutes?
> 

For Arabic, the equivalent to "remain" or "left" here is a verb not a
noun and has no plural form. I cannot think of another example with a
plural the depend on two quantities.


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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