NAME

conjug - Conjugation of Portuguese verbs

DESCRIPTION

  conjug [qvrcsx] verb+, [tense]*, [1-6]*

- tense is one of 
     pres    Presente, 
     perf    Perfeito, 
     imp     Imperfeito, 
     fut     Futuro,
     mdp     Mais-que-Perfeito,
     cpres   Conjuntivo Presente,
     cimp    Conjuntivo Imperfeito,
     cfut    Conjuntivo Futuro,
     ivo     Imperativo
     pp      Partic'ipio Passado
     grd     Gerundivo 
     default is all.  

- the numbers 1-4,6 correspond to
   "eu","tu","ele"/"ela","nos","eles"/"elas". 
   Second person plural is discarded.
   Default is all persons that apply to the tense.

 Returns the verb congugated at the requested tenses and persons as
 list of strings (one combination of tense, person each), one tense
 per row, one person per column, writing out, and a little more
 information : Typical output is :

     > conjug ouvir i pres cpres ivo pp grd
     ouvir :  irreg                                         
     pres     oi\co   ouves    ouve    ouvimos     ouvem    
     cpres    oi\ca   oi\cas   oi\ca   oi\camos    oi\cam   
     ivo              ouve     oi\ca   oi\camos    oi\cam   
     pp       ouvido                                        
     grd      ouvindo                                  

 Options
h
Print this Help, then exit.
q
Quiet : Print only conjugated forms, with no extra stuff (see
      EXAMPLES). 
i
Don't use Iso-8859-1 character set, but "^a"etc accents and
      "\c" cedilla.
r
Produce output as one person per Row, rather than the default
      one tense per row.
x
Each verb entry is a regular eXpression that matches a
      correct form.

ACCENTUATION / CEDILLA : by default, the output uses iso-accents.

C-CEDILLA is written \c

ACCENTS are written sharp : 'a,  grave : `a, circumflex : ^o etc. 

EXAMPLES :

etienne@anonimo: conjug i ouvir pres ouvir : irreg pres oi\co ouves ouve ouvimos ouvem

etienne@anonimo: conjug i q ouvir pres oi\co ouves ouve ouvimos ouvem

etienne@anonimo: conjug i qx ouvir pres o[iu]\co ouves ouve ouvimos ouvem

BUGS :

Cedillas must be protected from shell escape : you must write "conjug cal\\car" or "conjug 'cal\car' if don't want your verb to become 'calcar'.
Options "ir" are interpreted as the verb "ir".
Second person plural is not defined (little used).

FILES :

I<verb.pt> contains an ascii "database" of irregular verbs, and is
indispensable to the correct functioning of "conjug".  

SEE ALSO : treinar, Lingua::PT::Conjugate.pm.

VERSION 0.01

AUTHOR Etienne Grossmann, January 1998 [etienne@isr.ist.utl.pt]