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justinsilvestre opened this issue Feb 18, 2025 · 0 comments
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There are a number of errors in the yomitan lookup results using kty-de-en for pronouns and for determiners, i.e. definite/indefinite articles, demonstrative/possessive adjectives, etc. For example, the neuter nominative/accusative definite article "das":

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The first result is thorough and covers all the various usages of this word. But scroll down and you see more results, one for each singular-neuter variant of the definite article, plus the masculine singular nominative definite article "der" (in addition to one strange entry for "abgeschrägtes Dodekaeder").

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"Das" is not an inflected form of "den", "dem", "des", or "der". If the masculine singular nominative definite article "der" is considered the lemma form of the definite article, then "das" might be considered an inflected form, but this is not the usual way of analyzing this word. More usually, the definite article (and other determiners) are considered to have three/four different "basic forms" corresponding to the nominative forms in its masculine, feminine, neuter, and plural variants.

Something similar happens with the other determiners, such as the indefinite article "ein". The main entry:

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The superfluous results which wrongly consider "ein" as an inflected form of other indefinite article forms:

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The personal pronouns are affected as well. Here are some results that show up when looking up "sie" (usually translated as she/they).

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I would suggest removing the deinflection entries for all words besides verbs, nouns, and adjectives, since the lemma entries seem to cover these words' various usages already.

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