Finnish and German/Pending tests
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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
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) . → .