[kde-edu]: Could kvoctrain detect noun's gender automatically?

Scott Wheeler wheeler at kde.org
Mon Jan 17 20:28:55 CET 2005


On Monday 17 January 2005 13:44, Aivo Jürgenson wrote:
> Or perhaps an example from German, if I enter 'der Hund', kvoctrain
> should know that this is a male noun?

But "die Hunde".  German recycles the feminine article as the plural as well.  
Making such assumptions in a language independent way breaks down pretty 
quickly.  Good luck writing code to distinguish plurals from feminine nouns 
in German.  ;-)

-Scott

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