Thanks. I know Arabic conjugation rules, but didn't know the word. BTW, Persian is not any like that, it uses prefix/suffixes.
behdad On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj wrote: > > --- Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > BTW, what is a "conjugator"? > > > > A conjugator, put simply, is something that conjugates :). To be more exact, > conjugation is the act of getting one form of a verb from the root or from > another form. English has irregular conjugation rules, but mostly you conjugate > by simply adding suffixes. Arabic is a different matter altogether because it > doesn't use prefixes or suffixes, it uses infixes. I don't know what the > situation is in Persian, but its probably similiar to Arabic. An example: > > The root verb for "write" in Arabic, is ka-ta-ba (ÙÙØÙØÙ). To "conjugate" > it to the male present plural form, for example, you add a "ya" at the > beginning, put a hamza on the first letter, a dhamma on the second (not always) > and third, and the waw+noon combo representative of a group of males. You get > ya-k-tu-buun (ÙÙÙÙØÙØÙÙÙ) and that is how you conjugate a verb! The > aim of this project is to create a program to do this automatically. If you > give it "kataba" and say you want the male present plural, it should be able to > output yaktubun by applying the above rules. Same goes for all forms of a verb, > which I believe there 16 of them in Arabic. > > Thanks for making me write this! It'll go into the README :) > > Abdulaziz, > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
