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Support inflection of adverbs #12

Open grhoten opened 6 months ago

grhoten commented 6 months ago

We should be able to inflect adverbs. For example, in English, I may have the phrase "The ${device} is on". The word "on" is an adverb, and it's static in English. In a language like French, it can have the following forms:

singular plural
masculine allumée allumées
feminine allumé allumés

The choice of adverb depends on the grammatical properties of ${device}.

BrunoCartoni commented 6 months ago

Technically, it's an adjective (at least in French) ;-)

grhoten commented 6 months ago

That's a good point. That's a difference between English and French. Apparently I don't have the need to inflect adverbs at this time. The adjective inflection issue is here: https://github.com/unicode-org/inflection/issues/13

Maybe this issue can be a lower priority.