List of symbols

Eventually this will be a glossary of symbol names in alphabetical order with notes. Some of these names are specific to particular packages or language pairs, as not all languages have the same grammatical features (most don't have spatial distinction in articles for example).

If you were wondering what the symbols #, /, @, + or * mean, read Apertium stream format.

Categories

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
n	Noun	see 'np' for proper noun
vblex	Standard verb	see also: vbser, vbhaver, vbmod, vaux
vbmod	Modal verb
vbser	Verb "to be"	from ser (to be)
vbhaver	Verb "to have"	from haver (to have)
vaux	Auxilliary verb	wikipedia
adj	Adjective
adv	Adverb
preadv	Pre-adverb
det	Determiner	wikipedia
prn	Pronoun	wikipedia
pr	Preposition	wikipedia
num	Numeral
np	Proper noun	From nom propi wikipedia
ij	Interjection	wikipedia
cnjcoo	Co-ordinating conjunction	wikipedia
cnjsub	Sub-ordinating conjunction
cnjadv	Conjunctive adverb	wikipedia

Sub-categories

Gender

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
f	Feminine
m	Masculine
nt	Neuter
mn	Masculine and Neuter
fn	Feminine and Neuter
ut	Common	From utrum, found in Scandinavian languages.
mf	Masculine , feminine	This is used where the gender can be either masculine or feminine
un	Common, neuter	As above, only common or neuter
GD	Gender to be determined

Number

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
sg	Singular
pl	Plural
du	Dual
sp	Singular , plural
ND	Number to be determined

Case

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
nom	Nominative
acc	Accusative
dat	Dative
gen	Genitive
dg	Dative and Genitive
voc	Vocative
ins	Instrumental	wikipedia
loc	Locative	wikipedia
abl	Ablative	wikipedia
cpr	Prepositional	wikipedia

Tense and mood

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
pres	Present
past	Past
imp	Imperative
inf	Infinitive
pp	Past participle	wikipedia
pp2	Past participle (???)	It's at least used in the Esperanto dictionaries for future active participles, ont (seems quite odd)
pp3	Past participle (???)	It's at least used in the Esperanto dictionaries for past active participles, int (seems quite odd)
pprs	Present participle
ger	Gerund	wikipedia
pri	Present indicative	see also: pres. wikipedia
pii	Imperfect	from Pretério imperfecto de indicativo
fti	Future indicative
fts	Future subjunctive
cni	Conditional
plu	Pluperfect	In cy-en
pmp	Pluperfect	In es-gl (from Pluscamperfecto)
prs	Present subjunctive	wikipedia
pis	Imperfect subjunctive
ifi		from Pretério perfecto o indefinido
aff	Affirmative
itg	Interrogative
neg	Negative

Proper nouns

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
ant	Anthroponym	wikipedia
top	Toponym	In some language pairs without the locative case this may be loc. Although this should be changed. wikipedia
hyd	Hydronym	wikipedia
cog	Cognomen	In normal use, surnames
org	Organisation
al	Altres	Other, misc.

Person

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
p1	First person
p2	Second person
p3	Third person
impers	Impersonal	Sometimes called 'autonomous'

Animacy

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
aa	Animate
an	Animate / inanimate
nn	Inanimate

Adjectives

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
sint	Synthetic	"nice, nicer, nicest" is synthetic. "handsome, more handsome, the most handsome" is not. wikipedia
pve	Positive
comp	Comparative	wikipedia
sup	Superlative	wikipedia
attr	Attributive	wikipedia
pred	Predicative	wikipedia

Symbol	Gloss	Notes
tn	Tonico
detnt	Neuter determiner
predet	Pre determiner
atn
qnt	Quantifier
ord	Ordinal
obj	Object
subj	Subject
pro	Proclitic
enc	Enclitic
acr	Acronym
rel	Relative
ind	Indefinite
itg	Interrogative
dem	Demonstrative
def	Definite
pos	Possesive
ref	Reflexive
prx	Proximate
dst	Distal
pprep	Post preposition (in Slavic languages, for pronoun changes: 'ich' -> 'nich')

XML tags

Note: All XML tags are explained in depth in the PDF documentation.

XML tag	Means	Appears in XML tags / notes / examples
<dictionary>	Mono- or bilingual dictionary	In files apertium-eo-en.en.dix, apertium-eo-en.eo-en.dix, apertium-eo-en.post-en.dix, apertium-eo-en.post-eo.dix
<alphabet>	Set of characters in the language	In <dictionary>
<sdefs>	Symbol definitions	In <dictionary>
<sdef>	Symbol definition	In <sdefs>. Ex: <sdef n="noun"/>
<pardefs>	Paradigm definitions	In <dictionary>.
<pardef>	Paradigm definition	In <pardefs>.
<section>	A section of the dictionary	In <dictionary>. Ex: <section id="main" type="standard">
<e>	A dictionary entry (a word)	In <section> and in <pardef>.
<i>	Invariant (left and right side)	In <e>. Ex.: <i>beer</i>
<p>	A pair	In <e>.
<l>	Left side (surface form)	In <p>. Ex.: <l>beer</l>
<r>	Right side (lexical unit)	In <p>. Ex.: <r>beer<s n="noun"/><s n="singular"/></r>
<s>	A lexical symbol (noun, adj..)	In <r>, <l> and <i>. Ex.: <s n="noun"/>

TODO: Probably there are more. --Jacob Nordfalk 14:47, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Other tags:

<b/> is a blank (a space)

<j/> (in stream format #) is to mark multiwords

<t/> and <v/> are only in crossdix
t = template, v = variable
t matches any single tag, v is like + in regexes (0 or more)

<sa/> and <prm/> are only used in metadixes.
'sa' lets you add n optional extra tag, prm is an extra string for the paradigm

Transfer

<clip> tag

See the documentation (pdf), p.144 for more information.

XML attribute value	Means	Appears in attribute	Notes
whole	lemma and grammatical symbols	part
lem	lemma	part
lemh	(inflected) head word of multiword	part
lemq	following queue of multiword	part