What I do, is have two different formats in the translation tokens.

As an example, this app[0], is currently only localized in English, but I still use tokens, whenever I do apps, so the base localization[1] has stuff like this:

    "SLUG-CLEANTIME-DIVIDER"                        =   "\nThis is ";
    "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEAR-EXACT"              =   "exactly one year.";
    "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEARS-EXACT"             =   "exactly %d years.";
    "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEAR"                    =   "one year";
    "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEARS"                   =   "%d years";
    "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-MONTH"                   =   "one month";
    "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-MONTHS"                  =   "%d months";
    "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-DAY"                     =   "one day";
    "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-DAYS"                    =   "%d days";

Which is actually composed in this dependency[2].

It's not perfect, but is pretty flexible.

Silly stuff, I know, and the app is not exactly a viral sensation, but the folks that use it, like it.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nacc/id452299196

[1] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/NACC/blob/master/Sources...

[2] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_UICleantime/blob/mas...

The kind of company I want to be a part of