NAME¶
french-deconjugator - analyze conjugated French verbs
SYNOPSIS¶
echo aimé | french-deconjugator > result.txt
DESCRIPTION¶
french-deconjugator reads conjugated French verbs from the command line
or from standard input and writes (to standard output) the verb's
infinitive form, the
mode (infinitive, indicative, conditional,
subjunctive, imperative or participle), the
tense (present, past,
imperfect, future), the
person (1, 2 or 3, while 0 is used for the
present participle tense, and 4 and 5 are used in the past participle tense),
and the
number (singular or plural). These fields are separated by a
comma and a space.
The standard input is not read if verbs are passed as command-line arguments.
By convention, persons 4 and 5 are used in the
past participle tense to
indicate the gender: 4 means masculine (e.g., "aimé" or
"aimés") and 5 means feminine (e.g., "aimée"
or "aimées").
A single conjugated form can correspond to more than one mode, tense and person.
In this case, each alternative is written on its own line.
In all cases, the end of the answer is marked by an empty line. If the word is
unknown, only this empty line is written. The names for the mode, tense and
number are always in English. (This is meant to facilitate automatic parsing
of the output. For a French user interface, see the GNOME application and
applet.)
The command flushes its output buffer after finishing each answer. This allows
the command to be easily called from another program through two pipes.
The command starts by loading its database from XML files (stored typically in
/usr/share/verbiste). This takes some time, so it is a good idea to have the
command answer many requests instead of running it for each request.
The verbiste library's source archive contains Perl and Java example programs
that illustrate this technique.
This commands expects to read Latin-1 characters and writes Latin-1 characters.
There must not be any leading or trailing white spaces on the lines read by
the command.
OPTIONS¶
- --help
- display a help page and exit
- --version
- display version information and exit
- --lang=L
- select the language to use (fr for French or it for
Italian); French is the default language
- --all-infinitives
- print the infinitive form of all the verbs in the knowledge base, one per
line, unsorted; other command-line arguments are ignored
EXAMPLES¶
$ french-deconjugator aimé
aimer, participle, past, 0, singular
$ echo -ne 'a\nplu\nété\n' | french-deconjugator
avoir, indicative, present, 3, singular
plaire, participle, past, 0, singular
pleuvoir, participle, past, 0, singular
être, participle, past, 0, singular
LICENSE¶
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty.
AUTHOR¶
See the
verbiste(3) manual page.
BUGS¶
See the
verbiste(3) manual page.
SEE ALSO¶
verbiste(3),
french-conjugator(1).