french-conjugator(1)french-conjugator(1)NAMEfrench-conjugator - conjugate French verbs
SYNOPSIS
echo aimer | french-conjugator > result.txt
DESCRIPTIONfrench-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 typi‐
cally 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 singular
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, con‐
ditional, subjunctive, imperative or participle
--tense=T
only display tense T, where T can be present, past, imperfect or
future
--pronouns
show the pronouns
--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:
aimé
aimés
aimée
aimées
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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 war‐
ranty.
AUTHOR
See the verbiste(3) manual page.
BUGS
See the verbiste(3) manual page.
SEE ALSOverbiste(3), french-deconjugator(1).
April 6th, 2014 french-conjugator(1)
