NAME

conjug - Conjugation of Portuguese verbs

DESCRIPTION

   conjug [qvrcsx] 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.

  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]