Template:, and
This shows a localized separator for the last pair of items in comma-separated lists like this: a, and b.
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Usage
When enumerating comma-separated lists, the final item follows an "and" coordination conjonction, but not all languages use a comma before it. Look at these examples:
- English (en) ‒ 1, 2, and 3
- German (de) ‒ 1, 2 und 3
- Spanish (es) ‒ 1, 2 y 3
- French (fr) ‒ 1, 2 et 3
- Italian (it) ‒ 1, 2 e 3
- Japanese (ja) ‒ 1、 2 および 3
- Korean (ko) ‒ 1, 2, 3
- Chinese (zh) ‒ 1、2和3
- Hebrew (he) ‒ 1, 2 וגם 3
- Arabic (ar) ‒ 1، 2 و 3
- Persian (fa) ‒ 1، 2، و 3
- Divehi (dv) ‒ 1، 2، އަދި 3
Note also that Korean already uses a comma for translating "and", so it must not be preceded by a comma and a word separator.
Additionally there's not necessarily a space used as word separator before or after the translation of "and".
This template will match those differences for translating the whole ", and " sequence (shown above on yellow background): use {{, and}} between items without leaving any space before or after it.
You may need to edit this template to add other languages for which the comma is undesirable before the word-separator and the coordination "and". Note that the template implements language fallbacks so (for example) the rule for "pt" also applies by default to "pt-br", the rule for "zh" also applies to "zh-hant" or "zh-hans", and the rule for "fr" also applies by default to "br" (The supported language fallbacks are implemented in {{LangSwitch}}).
Example
- 1{{,}}{{Int|Word-separator}}2{{, and}}3
renders: "1, 2, and 3".