Verbix

Conjugate verbs in a variety of languages. The next best thing to a proper API, this module screenscrapes verbix.com, a wonderful volunteer-maintained resource you should consider contributing to.

Usage

Exports one method, conjugate, which takes a language as the first argument and a verb infinitive as the second. It returns a promise for a plain javascript object with the structure obj[mood][tense][pronoun] (e.g. indicative.present.ich). The terminal elements are arrays, as in some languages there are multiple conjugations for a given mood/tense/pronoun combination.

require('verbix').
  conjugate('German', 'tanzen').
  then(function (tanzen) { console.log(tanzen.indicative.present.ich[0] ); })
// logs "tanze" 

These values are scraped from pages like these. Grammatical moods without nested tense tables (e.g. the imperative in Germanic languages) are not parsed properly at the moment. A pull request to fix that would be happily accepted.

Contributing

npm run check before submitting a pull request.

Disclaimers

I am not affiliated with the maintainers of verbix.com. Screenscraping has been an expedient for my study of German with Anki but be forewarned: it is an inherently fragile approach. I have an incentive to keep it working for German for the next few years, but other than that you shouldn't expect much.

If I make an effort to ensure the tables for other languages are parsed properly, it will likely be half-hearted and infrequent.

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

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