---
title: plural-branches
description: "A plural of vue-i18n does not have the branches of the source."
---

# `plural-branches`

**Warning** · A plural of vue-i18n does not have the branches of the source.

`git8n check` reports this rule as a warning. It fails only past `--max-warnings`.

## Why it matters

vue-i18n picks a branch of `no car | one car | {count} cars` by the number of its branches: with 2, the first is for 1; with 3, the first is for 0 and the second for 1. A translation with other branches shows the wrong one. Only a source with branches is read as a plural, and a text with an ICU choice is never one. The rule runs with `--syntax vue-i18n` only.

## Invalid

`locales/en/common.json`

```json
{
  "cars": "no car | one car | {count} cars"
}
```

`locales/fr/common.json`

```json
{
  "cars": "une voiture | {count} voitures"
}
```

```text
$ git8n check --source en --syntax vue-i18n
locales/fr/common.json
  warning  common:cars: 2 branches, and the source has 3.  plural-branches

Read more:
  plural-branches  https://git8n.sakuga.dev/docs/reference/rules/plural-branches.html

0 errors, 1 warning in 2 files (en → fr, 1 key).
```

## Valid

`locales/en/common.json`

```json
{
  "cars": "no car | one car | {count} cars"
}
```

`locales/fr/common.json`

```json
{
  "cars": "aucune voiture | une voiture | {count} voitures"
}
```

```text
$ git8n check --source en --syntax vue-i18n
0 errors, 0 warnings in 2 files (en → fr, 1 key).
```

## What to do

Write as many branches as the source, separated by `|`. Write `{'|'}` for a `|` that is text. If the application sets `pluralRules` for this language, its number of branches can differ: `--max-warnings` lets a number of warnings pass.

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