diff --git a/node-gettext/index.d.ts b/node-gettext/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for node-gettext 2.0
+// Project: http://github.com/alexanderwallin/node-gettext
+// Definitions by: Sameer K.C. <https://github.com/sameercaresu>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+export = GetText;
+declare class GetText {
+    constructor(options?: { debug: boolean; });
+    addTranslations(locale: string, domain: string, translations: object): void;
+    dgettext(domain: string, msgid: string): string;
+    dngettext(domain: string, msgid: string, msgidPlural: string, count: number): string;
+    dnpgettext(domain: string, msgctxt: string, msgid: string, msgidPlural: string, count: number): string;
+    dpgettext(domain: string, msgctxt: string, msgid: string): string;
+    emit(eventName: string, eventData: any): void;
+    getComment(domain: string, msgctxt: string, msgid: string): object | boolean;
+    gettext(msgid: string): string;
+    ngettext(msgid: string, msgidPlural: string, count: number): string;
+    npgettext(msgctxt: string, msgid: string, msgidPlural: string, count: number): string;
+    off(eventName: string, callback: (params: any) => void): string;
+    on(eventName: string, callback: (params: any) => void): void;
+    pgettext(msgctxt: string, msgid: string): string;
+    setLocale(locale: string): void;
+    setTextDomain(domain: string): void;
+    static getLanguageCode(locale: string): string;
+    textdomain(domain: string): void;
+    warn(message: string): void;
+}
diff --git a/node-gettext/node-gettext-tests.ts b/node-gettext/node-gettext-tests.ts
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+// with  tsc v 2.7 & esModuleInterop & allowSyntheticDefaultImports enabled in tsconfig.json
+import Gettext from 'node-gettext';
+// or without
+// import Gettext = require('node-getttext');
+
+const translations = {};
+const gt = new Gettext({ debug: true });
+const msgid = 'Get translation';
+const msgidPlural = 'Get translations';
+const domain = 'domain';
+const msgctxt = 'context';
+const count = 2;
+
+gt.addTranslations('en-US', 'messages', translations);
+gt.setTextDomain(domain);
+gt.textdomain(domain);
+gt.setLocale('en-US');
+gt.gettext(msgid);
+gt.dgettext('', msgid);
+gt.dngettext(domain, msgid, msgidPlural, count);
+gt.dnpgettext(domain, msgctxt, msgid, msgidPlural, count);
+gt.dpgettext(domain, msgctxt, msgid);
+gt.getComment(domain, msgctxt, msgid);
+gt.ngettext(msgid, msgidPlural, count);
+gt.npgettext(msgctxt, msgid, msgidPlural, count);
+gt.pgettext(msgctxt, msgid);
+Gettext.getLanguageCode('en-US');
+gt.warn('warning');
+const errorListener = (error: string) => {
+    // do something;
+};
+gt.on('error', errorListener);
+gt.emit('error', 'Error occurred');
+gt.off('error', errorListener);
diff --git a/node-gettext/tsconfig.json b/node-gettext/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
+        "esModuleInterop": true,
+        "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "node-gettext-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/node-gettext/tslint.json b/node-gettext/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }