Talk:Z11589

Implementation

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi y'all,

The implementation should be something along this line:

check the gender and number of the adjective
- convert to feminine singular (or keep it if it already is)
add "ment" at the end
deal with exceptions

Some exception and potential troubles:

adjectives ending in -ant(e)/-ent(e) make adverbs ending in « -amment » and « -emment » (respectively), eg. brillant → brillamment, patient → patiemment
if feminine form of the adjective ends with a vowel, discard the vowel: joli → joliement
some adjective are more irregular than other, should we build the feminine and/or look into lexemes (French masculine adjective to feminine (Z11590) still has some problem but in the other hand, most adjectives don't have a lexeme yet)
probably other exceptions I'm forgetting right now
maybe simplify the algorithm for adjectives with the same form in masculine and feminine (to need to convert "faible" masucline to "faible" feminine)
should it be in pre-1990 or post-1900 orthography? (or both? in the same function or in two?)