Template:I18n month

Documentation

This templates allows to render the name of a month (specified through a number between 1 and 12) in the user's preferred language.

Usage

{{I18n month |1= |2= }}

Parameter	Description	Default	Status
`1`	number (1-12) of the month. Short (like "Jan") and full (like "January") names are also supported.	empty	required
`2`	language code (only needs to be provided if the language shall be fixed and independent from the user's preferences)	value of {{int:Lang}}	optional
`form`	allows to specify grammatical case for the month, for languages that use them. Possible cases: "form=nom" for nominative case (or leave blank) "form=gen" for genitive case "form=loc" for locative case (supported for pl, cs & sl languages) "form=ins" for instrumental case (supported for pl, cs & sl languages) "form=dat" for dative case (supported for ru language) Also Partitive (ptv), Inessive (ine), Elative (ela) and Illative (ill) cases are supported for Finnish language, in addition to Nominative and Genitive (gen).	nom	optional

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the Template namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Placement:

indirectly called in templates, e.g. in {{Date}}

Code	Output	Notes
{{I18n month\|1}}	January	Month name in the language of the user
{{I18n month\|2\|de}}	Februar	German version
{{I18n month\|3\|fr}} {{I18n month\|3\|fr\|form=gen}}	mars mars	Regular and genitive case in language that do not differentiate between them results in identical output
{{I18n month\|4\|ru}} {{I18n month\|4\|ru\|form=gen}}	апрель апреля	Regular and genitive case in language that use uses different cases
{{I18n month\|9}} {{I18n month\|Sep}} {{I18n month\|September}}	September September September	Alternative month specifications
{{I18n month\|6\|pl\|form=loc}} {{I18n month\|6\|cs\|form=loc}}	czerwcu červnu	locative case
{{I18n month\|7\|pl\|form=ins}} {{I18n month\|7\|cs\|form=ins}}	lipcem červencem	instrumental case
{{I18n month\|5}} {{I18n month\|5\|fi\|form=gen}} {{I18n month\|5\|cs\|form=ins}} {{I18n month\|5\|pl\|form=loc}}	May toukokuun květnem maju	May uses different code than other months, beceause it has no separate short and long forms in English.