Finnish and German/Pending tests

see also Finnish and German/Regression tests

Parts of Speech

First we simply want to see that words of each POS kind of work.

Determiners

German has articles, Finnish not so...

the

• (deu) der →
• (fin) tämä → die

Nouns

German requires and article for nominals.

house

• (deu) das Haus → talo
• (fin) talo → Haus

Proper nouns

Just a small nuisance with apertium's np classes *and* genders.

Jack

• (deu) Jack → Jack
• (fin) Jack → Jack

Finland

• (deu) Finnland → Suomi
• (fin) Suomi → Finnland

Pronouns

Well, yeah.

I

• (deu) ich → minä
• (fin) minä → ich

me

• (deu) mich → minut
• (fin) minut → mich
• (fin) minua → mich

to me

• (deu) mir → minulle
• (fin) minulle → mir

Verbs

German is anti-drop.

sleep

• (deu) ich schlafe → minä nukun
• (fin) nukun → ich schlafe

Separable prefixes

German can separate prefixes with infinite stuff intervening

to capture

• (deu) die Katze fangen eine Maus → kissa vangitsee hiiren

to begin

• (deu) wir anfangen von vorne → aloitamme edestä
• (deu) fangen sie von vorne an! → aloittakaa edestä!

ankündigen

• (deu) Delegationen kündigten in Caracas an → delegaatiot tiedottivat Caracasissa
• (deu) Die 62-Jährige kündigte in Berlin an → 62-vuotias tiedotti Berliinissä

Adjectives

German adjective should agree with noun on their genders.

red

• (deu) ein rotes Haus → punainen talo
• (fin) punainen talo → rotes Haus

Adverbs

German adverbs are quite but not totally like Finnish; biggest problem is 0-conversion ADV<->ADJ and resulting disamb. problematics

fast

• (deu) ich schlafe schnell → minä nukun nopeasti
• (fin) nukun nopeasti → ich schlafe schnell

Conjunctions

also

and

• (deu) und → ja
• (fin) ja → und

because

• (deu) weil → koska
• (fin) koska → weil

Adpositions

German adps have some case requirements but also case variation to determine what happens as well.

behind

• (deu) hinter dem Haus → talon takana :: dative is static
• (deu) hinter das Haus → talon taakse :: accusative is movement
• (fin) talon takana → hinter dem Haus
• (fin) talon taakse → hitner das Haus

Numerals

Numerals are ok by themselves usually

one

• (deu) eins → yksi
• (fin) yksi → eins

two

• (deu) zwei → kaksi
• (fin) kaksi → zwei

third

• (deu) dritte → kolmas
• (fin) kolmas → dritte

Numeral phrases are all weird

Digits

nothing very strange, of course slightly differing orthographies for lots of dinge

1000

• (deu) 1000 → 1000
• (fin) 1000 → 1000

Interjections

As use

hi

• (deu) hallo → hei
• (fin) hei → hallo

Punktion

Fin uses UPOS German apertium style dozen of classes.

full stop

• (deu) . → .
• (fin) . → .

Phrases

Verbs to possess

Finnish possession is nominal in adessive + copula (olla) in 3rd singular + nominal (in object form?). German has copula for having (haben).

haben

• (deu) ich habe die Katze → minulla on kissa
• (deu) ich habe die Katzen → minulla on kissoja
• (deu) wir haben das Haus → meillä on talo
• (fin) minulla on kaksi kissaa → ich habe zwei Katzen