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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"German requires different cases for ‘%s ago’ and ‘%s from now’","articleBody":"This is somewhat related to #88 , but hasn’t been resolved and also needs changes to more than the translation files I am afraid.\n\nSo what this is about is that German grammar is a beast, and prepositions require certain cases. For instance, ’vor‘ will need a _dativ_. ‘an hour ago’ thus translates into ‘vor einer Stunde‘, rather than ‘vor eine Stunde‘ (that’s _nominativ_). \n\n`humanize` forms the expression ‘an hour ago‘ by [piping the output of `naturaldelta` straight into the i18n format string for `%s ago`](https://github.com/python-humanize/humanize/blob/0e027051034b7dcb4eb65aded290cf56a89d8aa9/src/humanize/time.py#L274-L275). `naturaldelta()` returns a _nominativ_, that is correct as long as the expression stands by itself. However, as soon as a preposition is placed in front of the value, the grammatical case should change. \n\n(The same is true for ‘in ...’/‘... from now’(which currently translates into ‘... ab jetzt’ which sounds odd). Conveniently, both ‘in’ and ‘vor’ require the same case, _dativ_)\n\nI would be happy to contribute, but I do not know where to start without breaking things big time. If anybody can give me some directions of how to implement this best, I would go ahead and dig my head in \n\nI don’t properly speak any Slavic languages, but I would expect similar issues with those (correct me if I am wrong)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/christophfink","@type":"Person","name":"christophfink"},"datePublished":"2025-08-29T20:08:39.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/263/humanize/issues/263"}