[Bug localedata/10871] ru_RU: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive cases

[kon at iki dot fi]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10871

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki dot fi> changed:

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--- Comment #30 from Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki dot fi> ---
In Finnish, all the month names end with "kuu" (moon) in the singular
nominative, and you can form the genitive, partitive, or inessive by appending
"n", "ta", or "ssa": tammikuu, tammikuun, tammikuuta, tammikuussa.  So I think
we can largely cover text output just by localizing the strftime format string.

I think we'd write

tammikuu = January (nominative)
tammikuun 17. päivä = 17th day of January (genitive)
tammikuun 17. päivänä = on the 17th day of January (genitive)
tammikuun 17. päivänä 2016 = on the 17th day of January (genitive) 2016
17. tammikuuta = 17 January (partitive)
17. tammikuuta 2016 = 17 January (partitive) 2016
tammikuussa 2016 = in January (inessive) 2016

("1. tammikuu" seems like it would mean the January of the first year, as in,
it snowed this much in the first January but not so much a year later.)

In plural forms though, the "kuu" ending often has to be modified: tammikuut
(nominative), tammikuiden (genitive), tammikuita (partitive), tammikuissa
(inessive). But I don't see these being used in dates.

There are forms like sunnuntaisin = on Sundays, talvisin = in wintertime. One
could likewise say tammikuisin but this seems uncommon. Perhaps that form could
be used in a web application where the user selects whether they want to be
sent an invoice every January or every February.

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