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

NAME

       french-deconjugator - analyze conjugated French verbs

SYNOPSIS

       echo aime | 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,  imper-
       fect, 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.,  "aime"  or  "aimes")
       and 5 means feminine (e.g., "aimee" or "aimees").

       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 inter-
       face, 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

       --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-deconjugator aime
       aimer, participle, past, 0, singular

       $ echo -ne 'a
plu
ete
' | french-deconjugator
       avoir, indicative, present, 3, singular

       plaire, participle, past, 0, singular
       pleuvoir, participle, past, 0, singular

       etre, 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 28th, 2012					    french-deconjugator(1)