french-deconjugator(1)

1french-deconjugator(1)                                  french-deconjugator(1)
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NAME

6       french-deconjugator - analyze conjugated French verbs
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SYNOPSIS

9       echo aimé | french-deconjugator > result.txt
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DESCRIPTION

12       french-deconjugator  reads  conjugated  French  verbs from its standard
13       input and writes (to standard output) the verb's infinitive  form,  the
14       mode  (infinitive,  indicative, conditional, subjunctive, imperative or
15       participle), the tense (present, past, imperfect, future),  the  person
16       (1, 2 or 3, while 0 is used for the present participle tense, and 4 and
17       5 are used in the past participle tense), and the number  (singular  or
18       plural).  These fields are separated by a comma and a space.
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20       By convention, persons 4 and 5 are used in the past participle tense to
21       indicate the gender: 4 means masculine (e.g., "aimé" or "aimés") and  5
22       means feminine (e.g., "aimée" or "aimées").
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24       A  single  conjugated  form can correspond to more than one mode, tense
25       and person.  In this case, each alternative is written on its own line.
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27       In all cases, the end of the answer is marked by an empty line.  If the
28       word was unknown, only this empty line is written.
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30       The  command  flushes  its  output  buffer after finishing each answer.
31       This allows the command  to  be  easily  called  from  another  program
32       through two pipes.
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34       The command starts by loading its database from XML files (stored typi‐
35       cally in /usr/share/verbiste).  This takes some time, so it is  a  good
36       idea to have the command answer many requests instead of running it for
37       each request.
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39       The verbiste library's source archive contains Perl  and  Java  example
40       programs that illustrate this technique.
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42       This  commands  expects  to  read Latin-1 characters and writes Latin-1
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OPTIONS

47       --help display a help page and exit
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49       --version
50              display version information and exit
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52       --utf8 assume  that  the  terminal  uses  the UTF-8 encoding instead of
53              Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) -- try this option if Verbiste  claims  not
54              to know a verb that contains an accented character
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EXAMPLES

57       $ echo aimé | french-deconjugator
58       aimer, participle, past, 0, singular
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60       $ echo -ne 'a\nplu\nété\n' | french-deconjugator
61       avoir, indicative, present, 3, singular
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63       plaire, participle, past, 0, singular
64       pleuvoir, participle, past, 0, singular
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66       être, participle, past, 0, singular
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LICENSE

70       This  program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms
71       of the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no war‐
72       ranty.
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AUTHOR

75       See the verbiste(3) manual page.
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BUGS

78       See the verbiste(3) manual page.
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