NAME¶
french-conjugator - conjugate French verbs
SYNOPSIS¶
echo aimer | french-conjugator > result.txt
DESCRIPTION¶
french-conjugator reads the infinitive form of French verbs from the
command line or from standard input and writes (to standard output) the
complete conjugation of those verbs, if they are known.
The standard input is not read if verbs are passed as command-line arguments.
Each mode and tense is introduced by a line that starts with a hyphen and a
space, and ends with a colon. The mode and tense in that line are always in
English, regardless of the user's current locale. (This is meant to facilitate
automatic parsing of the output. For a French user interface, see the GNOME
application and applet.) The conjugation is ended with a line that only
contains a hyphen. If the given verb is unknown or not in the infinitive form,
only this line is written.
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.
There must not be any leading or trailing white spaces on the lines read by the
command.
In the
past participle tense, four lines are written: they correspond in
order to the masculine singular, masculine plural, feminine singular and
feminine plural.
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
- --mode=M
- only display mode M, where M can be
infinitive, indicative, conditional,
subjunctive, imperative or participle
- --tense=T
- only display tense T, where T can be
present, past, imperfect or future
- --pronouns
- show the pronouns
- --utf8
- assume that the terminal uses the UTF-8 encoding instead of
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1); try this option if Verbiste claims not to know a
verb that contains an accented character
- --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-conjugator aimer
- infinitive present:
aimer
- indicative present:
aime
aimes
aime
aimons
aimez
aiment
- indicative imperfect:
aimais
aimais
aimait
[...]
- participle past:
aimé
aimés
aimée
aimées
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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-deconjugator(1).