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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-edu]: Could kvoctrain detect noun's gender automatically?
From:       Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-01-17 19:28:55
Message-ID: 200501172028.55632.wheeler () kde ! org
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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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