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Lingua-PT-Conjugate-0.93
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NAME

conjug - Conjugation of Portuguese verbs

DESCRIPTION

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

- tense is one of 
     pres    or      Presente, 
     perf    or      Perfeito, 
     imp     or      Imperfeito, 
     fut     or      Futuro,
     mdp     or      Mais Que Perfeito      or Mais-que-Perfeito,
     cpres   or      Conjuntivo Presente,
     cimp    or      Conjuntivo Imperfeito,
     cfut    or      Conjuntivo Futuro,
     ivo     or      Imperativo
     pp      or      Partic'ipio Passado
     grd     or      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 i ouvir ivo partic\'ipio passado grd presente
     ouvir :  irreg                               
     ivo              ouve  oi\ca oi\camos oi\cam 
     pp       ouvido                              
     grd      ouvindo                             
     pres     oi\co   ouves ouve  ouvimos  ouvem  

 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.
o
Separate results with commas and spaces rather than just spaces.
l
Use long format for verbs, e.g. "presente" instead of "pres".

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).

SEE ALSO

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

VERSION 0.90

AUTHOR

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