✍ tinyplural

A tiny pluralizer for English nouns

tinyplural is an easy to use utility function that converts your strings into their relevant plurals dynamically. Comes with 0 dependencies.

Demo

import tinyplural from 'tinyplural';

const formattedDate = tinyplural('day', 2);

return (
  <>
    <p>Next payment due in {formattedDate}</p>
  </>
);

// => Next payment due in 2 days

It's fully written in TypeScript, with a test-suite to go with it.

The library is available as an npm package. To install the package run:

npm install tinyplural --save
# or with yarn
yarn add tinyplural

Want to get involved! Read our Contributors' Guide for details.

Found a bug or a rule that doesn't work? Open a bug report ticket.

Got a feature to add? Fork the repo, add your changes, and make a pull request.

Info

Say you need to present a promocode that ends in a number of days. Using tinyplural, you can just give the singular noun and the value and it will return the correct plural version.

| Noun | Plural | | ----- | ------ | | day | days | | hero | heroes | | goose | geese | | fish | fish |

Resources

These are some good guides explaining the rules behind plural nouns in English:

• https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/singular-and-plural-nouns/
• https://www.grammarly.com/blog/plural-nouns/