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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).

                                                 April 6th, 2014                          french-deconjugator(1)