italian-verbs

Agreement of Italian verbs, depending on tense, person and number.

Use italian-verbs-dict for the linguistic resource.

Installation

npm install italian-verbs

Usage

const ItalianVerbs = require('italian-verbs');
const ItalianVerbsList = require('italian-verbs-dict/dist/verbs.json');

// mangia
console.log(ItalianVerbs.getConjugation(ItalianVerbsList, 'mangiare', 'PRESENTE', 3, 'S'));

// avevano mangiato
console.log(ItalianVerbs.getConjugation(ItalianVerbsList, 'mangiare', 'TRAPASSATO_PROSSIMO', 3, 'P', { aux: 'AVERE' }));

One single function getConjugation that takes multiple parameters and return the agreed verb:

• verbs list (linguistic resource): use italian-verbs-dict or an extract
• verb (string): the verb to agree
• tense (string):
  • Indicative: PRESENTE, IMPERFETTO, PASSATO_REMOTO, FUTURO_SEMPLICE, PASSATO_PROSSIMO, TRAPASSATO_PROSSIMO, TRAPASSATO_REMOTO, FUTURO_ANTERIORE
  • Conjonctive: CONG_PRESENTE, CONG_PASSATO, CONG_IMPERFETTO, CONG_TRAPASSATO
  • Conditional: COND_PRESENTE, COND_PASSATO
  • IMPERATIVO
• person: 1 2 or 3
• number: S or P
• when tense is a composed tense (PASSATO_PROSSIMO, TRAPASSATO_PROSSIMO, TRAPASSATO_REMOTO, FUTURO_ANTERIORE, CONG_PASSATO, CONG_TRAPASSATO, COND_PASSATO):
  • aux: ESSERE or AVERE. Mandatory.
  • agreeGender: M or F if you want to agree the past participle
  • agreeNumber: S or P if you want to agree the past participle

Todo

• reflexive form
• facultative aux when the verb has always the same aux