%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
%%
%% Example 2-4-15 on page I-91 in "Support for multiple languages".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}


  \setcounter{section}{3}

  \AtEndDocument{%     we place the floats at the document end so that
                 %     they do not show up in the book and take up unnecessary space
    \newpage
    \begin{figure}\caption{A}\label{fig:a}\end{figure}
    \begin{table} \caption{A}\label{tab:a}\end{table}
    \begin{figure}\caption{B}\label{fig:b}\end{figure}
    \begin{figure}\caption{C}\label{fig:c}\end{figure}
  }

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel,cleveref}
\crefname{figure}{figure}{figures}
\newcommand\crefrangeconjunction{--}
\AtBeginDocument{\addto\extrasngerman{%
    \crefname{figure}{Abbildung}{Abbildungen}%
    \renewcommand\crefrangeconjunction{--}}}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
In \cref{fig:a,tab:a,fig:b,fig:c} we have \ldots
\par \selectlanguage{ngerman}
In \cref{fig:a,tab:a,fig:b,fig:c} haben wir \ldots
\end{document}