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[Данило Шеган <1363404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, for Serbian, it would have to be really spelled out.
Different days of the week have different genders, so adjective "every"
changes form depending on the day.

Basically, it'd have to be messages for all of

"Every Monday" (сваког понедељка)
"Every Tuesday" (сваког уторка)
"Every Wednesday" (сваке среде)
"Every Thursday" (сваког четвртка)
"Every Friday" (сваког петка)
"Every Saturday" (сваке суботе)
"Every Sunday" (сваке недеље)

Note how "every" is either "сваког" or "сваке".

"Every week" would go into either "сваких недељу дана" or "сваке
седмице" (the problem being that the same word is used in Serbian for a
week and a Sunday).

Also, it would be even more problematic if independent day names are
used in different contexts: they are usually translated in the base
nominative form, but in the above, we need to use genitive forms
(понедељак vs понедељка, среда vs среде).

I know it's tough for a developer (I am one myself) to accept having to
expand and spell out things that seem like completely reusable code, but
languages are simply like this.

** Changed in: ubuntu-calendar-app
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  Bad string composition

Status in Ubuntu Calendar App:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Following string in ../EventDetails.qml:75

   "Every %1"

  with the comment "TRANSLATORS: the argument is a day of the week or a
  list of days" indicates that %1 will be replaced with day names.

  That won't work well for at least Serbian, because day names need to
  be put into declinations when used with "every" instead of the
  generally used nominative declination.

  I am sure other languages would be affected as well.

  There'd be more problems like these in the calendar app, but proposing
  solutions would require careful analysis that I lack the time for
  right now.  As a general rule, expanding all composition into fully
  spelled out sentences is much better, even if a bit more verbose.

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