french-deconjugator(1)

💖 french-deconjugator(1) 💖

okay bestie, so french-deconjugator is a little command-line icon and today we're gonna become obsessed with her. she reads conjugated French verbs and tells you what they actually are. let's go 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

french-deconjugator — analyze conjugated French verbs 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

echo aimé | french-deconjugator > result.txt

like, that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea: 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 (which can be 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). all those fields get separated by a comma and a space. periodt. 🔥

bestie listen: the standard input is not read if verbs are passed as command-line arguments. so pick a lane, okay? 🙈

by convention (and she's very serious about this), 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"). gender reveal but make it grammar 🎀

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. she's not gonna pick favourites. 💅

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. (yes, just vibes and silence. 💀) 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. lowkey genius behaviour 🫶

the command starts by loading its database from XML files (stored typically in /usr/share/verbiste-0.1). this takes some time, so it is a good idea to have the command answer many requests instead of running it for each request. like, don't be that person running it per-word, the startup is giving loading screen 😭

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. she will notice. she always notices. 🧚

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✨ 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. full dump energy, no sorting, no notes 💅
• --data-dir=D — Get the XML data files from directory D instead of the default one. 🎀

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💖 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

look at those empty lines separating each answer. the structure? immaculate. the clarity? unmatched. she ate 💅✨

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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. like, zero. none. she said what she said 😭

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

See the verbiste(3) manual page. 📖

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💀 BUGS 💀

See the verbiste(3) manual page. (yes, same place. go look 👀)

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

verbiste(3), french-conjugator(1). 🦋

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you're officially fluent in deconjugation 💅 this lil gem is french-deconjugator(1) and it's dated August 4th, 2024 — mwah, slay, go conjugate something 🎀✨💖