german-adjectives v5.3.0

german-adjectives

Agreement of German adjectives, based on the gender and number of the word, and the case. You can use german-adjectives-dict as the linguistic resource.

Installation

npm install german-adjectives

Usage

const GermanAdjectivesLib = require('german-adjectives');
const GermanAdjectives = require('german-adjectives-dict/dist/adjectives.json');

// neuen
console.log(GermanAdjectivesLib.agreeGermanAdjective(null, GermanAdjectives, 'neu', 'DATIVE', 'M', 'S', 'DEFINITE'));

One single function agreeGermanAdjective that takes multiple parameters and return the agreed adjective:

• exception list on linguistic resources (elements in that list will override elements in second parameter); in general just put null here
• linguistic resource (list of adjectives): for the format see below and german-adjectives-dict lib
• adjective: the adjective to agree,
• germanCase: NOMINATIVE ACCUSATIVE DATIVE GENITIVE
• gender gender of the word; M F or N
• number: number of the word; S or P
• det: determiner; DEFINITE INDEFINITE or DEMONSTRATIVE

[
  "Dortmunder":{  
    "AKK":{  
        "DEF":{  
          "P":"Dortmunder",
          "F":"Dortmunder",
          "M":"Dortmunder",
          "N":"Dortmunder"
        },
        "IND":{  
          "P":"Dortmunder",
          "F":"Dortmunder",
          "M":"Dortmunder",
          "N":"Dortmunder"
        },
        "SOL":{  
          "P":"Dortmunder",
          "F":"Dortmunder",
          "M":"Dortmunder",
          "N":"Dortmunder"
        }
    },
    "DAT":{  
      ...
    },
    "GEN":{  
      ...
    },
    "NOM":{  
      ...
    }
  },
  ...
]

Todo

Add more possible determiners.

dependencies and licences

german-pos-dict provides linguistic binary resources under CC-BY-SA-4.0, which autorises commercial usages. It also contains an export.sh script to generate a textual dump using https://github.com/languagetool-org. dictionary.dump (zipped in dictionary.zip) is this textual dump. It remains under CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence.