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Japanese pop-up dictionary extension for Chrome and Firefox.
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[Feature Request] Add support for classical inflections #2127

Open peldas opened 2 years ago

peldas commented 2 years ago

I came across the term 果たせり recently and had to jump to the Wiktionary page to find out which inflection of 果たす it was, as Yomichan does not support classical inflections.

Would it be possible to add these so that third-party dictionaries can make use of it? As it currently stands, to support these inflections there needs to be a separate entry for every single possible permutation which is unmanageable.

toasted-nutbread commented 2 years ago

Do you (or anyone else who visits this issue) know of any formal description/documentation of how these inflections work?

kuroahna commented 2 years ago

Someone shared this in TMW server: https://linky-juku.com/inflectional-form/ I have no idea how classical japanese inflections work, but it would be really cool to have this support, as I've come across a few novels that use classical Japanese

Perhaps these issues are related: https://github.com/FooSoft/yomichan/issues/1665 and https://github.com/FooSoft/yomichan/issues/1410

The way that Japanese classifies things are completely different from the way that us English native speakers learn things, and the Japanese classification seems to be much simpler. For example, 食べた isn't a past-tense "conjugation" (seen as one whole unit) as most European languages would classify it, and hence brute forced as a concept when learning Japanese for an English speaker, but rather it's 食べ + た (seen as 2 separate units), where 食べ is a 連用形, and た is a 助動詞, the way that Japanese native speakers would see it.