Hi, I need to know if placeholders for languages ($1) in the following messages "MediaWiki:Mwe-timedtext-language-subtitles-for-clip" and "MediaWiki:Mwe-timedtext-language-no-subtitles-for-clip" support {{GRAMMAR:...}}?
Would the following translation work for the first mentioned message?Субтитры на {{GRAMMAR:prepositional|$1}} для $2
The placeholder for $1 is a language name. Whether or not that works with Grammar depends on the language i think. You should ask at translatewiki support.
Based on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:%22Die_Stem_van_Suid-Afrika%22_-_National_anthem_of_Apartheid-era_South_Africa.oga.es.srt it looks like the $1 is in the name of language of the current language and not the name in its own language.
I'm not sure that I completely understood what you wrote, but thanks a lot for a try!
Just in case: in Russian language, words could have different forms - cases. And I would like to know if I add a GRAMMAR with prepositional case before mysterious "$1", would the language name change depending on the provided case?
For example, in Russian, the word "English" have seven forms (even if two forms are equal, they are used in the different places): английский, английского, английскому, английский, английским, английском.
You see? Most of them have different endings and to make smooth and good translation (instead of weird construction I build there) I just need to know, may I use GRAMMAR: to use cases, proper word order and syntax to contribute better translations. Dixi.
So the thing is, GRAMMAR is implemented differently in different languages. Some languages have a complete implementation, where it works with any word. In Other languages it doesn't work very well and only works for select words. I am not sure what the case is for russian (which is why i suggested asking at translatewiki support as they are more familiar). You could test GRAMMAR at ru:Special:expandTemplates .
If i had to guess though, i would guess the answer is yes, but i'm not 100% sure.
