turkish-conjugator

The first turkish conjugator without wrong conjugations ever made!

Getting Started

Install:

npm install turkish-conjugator --save

Use in your project:

const Conjugate = require('turkish-conjugator')

But since you're a cool guy you'll use:

import Conjugate from 'turkish-conjugator'

Also avaliable as a script tag:

<script src='https://unpkg.com/turkish-conjugator/dist/bundle.js'></script>

Methods

Conjugate.it(verb)

Arguments:

verb (string) : A Turkish verb in its positive form like: gelmek, izin vermek, istemek, yaşamak...

Returns:

This method returns an array of objects with the following structure:

[
  {
    tense: string,
    title: string,
    conjugation: {
      positive: array,
      negative: array
    }
  },
  ...
]

There will be 10 objects and each of them will contain the tense, the title and an object containing the negative and positive conjugation of the given verb. Example using the verb gelmek:

{
  "tense": "aorist",
  "title": "Aorist",
  "conjugation": {
    "positive": ["gelirim", "gelirsin", "gelir", "geliriz", "gelirsiniz", "gelirler"],
    "negative": ["gelmem", "gelmezsin", "gelmez", "gelmeyiz", "gelmezsiniz", "gelmezler"]
  }
}

Here you can see a full example of the output for Conjugate.it('gelmek')

These are the supported tenses:

Aorist, Gerund (Present Continuous), Future, Simple Past, Miş Past, Past Continuous, Present Indefinite, Gerund Indefinite, Future Indefinite, Potential.

Conjugate.verify

This is an object containing methods to validate if a given string is a correct Turkish verb. This object contains 4 methods:

• ### .isAlphabeticallyValid(verb)

Arguments:

verb (string) : A Turkish verb in any form like: gelmek, izin vermek, istememek, yaşamamak...

Returns:

This method returns a boolean indicating whether a string is alphabetically valid according to the Turkish alphabet. If the returned value of this function is true it means the verb is alphabetically valid, if the returned value is false then it is not. (Duuh...)

• ### .isNegativeVerb(verb)

Arguments:

verb (string) : A Turkish verb in its negative form like: gelmemek, izin vermemek, istememek, yaşamamak...

Returns:

This method returns a boolean indicating whether a verb is a negative. For example: gelmemek returns true and gelmek returns false.

• ### .isVerb(verb)

Arguments:

verb (string) : A Turkish verb in any form like: gelmek, izin vermek, istememek, yaşamamak...

Returns:

This method returns a boolean indicating whether a string is a Turkish verb in its negative or positive form. For example: gelmemek returns true and gelmek returns true. Since this methods only checks if the verb/string ends with mak, mek, mamak, or memek a string like xmak will return true. To verify if a string is truly a Turkish verb that follows every rule use the method .isTurkishVerb instead.

• ### .isTurkishVerb(verb)

Arguments:

verb (string) : A Turkish verb in any form like: gelmek, izin vermek, istememek, yaşamamak...

Returns:

This method returns a boolean or a string. if the given verb is invalid and does not follow every Turkish rule about verbs and their structure then it will return false. if the given string is a Turkish verb in its negative form (like gelmemek), it will return the given verb in its positive form (gelmemek -> gelmek). If the given verb is in its positive form this same verb will be returned.

Examples:

Conjugate.verify.isTurkishVerb('gelmek') // 'gelmek'

Conjugate.verify.isTurkishVerb('gelmemek') // 'gelmek'

Conjugate.verify.isTurkishVerb('GelMemEK') // 'gelmek'

Conjugate.verify.isTurkishVerb('xmek') // false

Conjugate.verify.isTurkishVerb('gelmekk') // false

At Konjüsh this method's result is used as input for Conjugate.it in this way:

const isTurkishVerb = Conjugate.verify.isTurkishVerb('gelmek');
if(isTurkishVerb) {
  Conjugate.it(isTurkishVerb);
} else {
  // Show up an invalid Turkish verb message.
}

Conjugate.utils

This is an object containing methods to interact with Turkish verbs. This object contains 2 methods:

• ### .convertToNegativeVerb(verb)

Arguments:

verb (string) : A Turkish verb in its positive form like: gelmek, izin vermek, istemek, yaşamak...

Returns:

This method returns a string which will be the given verb in its negative form (gelmek -> gelmemek).

• ### .convertToPositiveVerb(verb)

Arguments:

verb (string) : A Turkish verb in its negative form like: gelmemek, izin vermemek, istememek, yaşamamak...

Returns:

This method returns a string which will be the given verb in its positive form (gelmemek -> gelmek).