<conjugating> possessive nouns: Borrower's vs. Borrowers'

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Hey all,

I have the concept #borrower, with singular and plural concept labels:

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Using <custom conjugations>, I am trying to distinguish these two situations:

Singular possessive: The borrower’s loan agreement specifies the terms of repayment.
Plural possessive: The borrowers’ collective debt was renegotiated.

I originally used @str(#borrower, “'s”), but when #borrower is set to plural, it leads to “borrowers’s”, which I don’t want.

Any way to make the above happen with custom conjugations?

Thanks!
Kai

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The concept label system itself is intelligent enough that it automatically adapts the possessive “apostrophe + s” to the correct singular/plural version if you just insert this: #borrower's.

There is no need to code this manually. :slight_smile:

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Oh wow, I did not know this! Is this in the documentation?

Thanks!

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Ah, this is not a < conjugating > feature, but a concept label feature. I was looking in the wrong place.

Maybe we can have a link in the conjugating documentation to the concept labels?

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I have updated the documentation on concept labels and included a link to there on the conjugations page. Thanks for the suggestion!

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