french-conjugator(1)													      french-conjugator(1)

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 singu-
       lar 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:
       aime
       aimes
       aimee
       aimees
       -

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).

								 April 28th, 2012					      french-conjugator(1)