Clever way to append 's' for plural form in .Net (syntactic sugar)

Question

I want to be able to type something like:

Console.WriteLine(\"You have {0:life/lives} left.\", player.Lives);

instead of

Consol         


        

Answer 1

string message = string.format("You have {0} left.", player.Lives == 1 ? "life" : "lives");

Of course this assumes that you have a finite number of values to pluralize.