Japanese Verb Conjugator

Japanese Verb Conjugator is a Python library for conjugating Japanese verbs.

What forms will Japanese Verb Conjugator conjugate?

Japanese Verb Conjugator conjugates the following verb forms:

• plain form
• polite form
• ~te form
• conditional form
• volitional form
• potential form
• imperative form
• provisional form
• causative form
• passive form

Japanese Verb Conjugator conjugates verbs based on verb class, tense, formality, and polarity parameters. Depending on the conjugation and verb class, the parameters for conjugation methods may vary.

Example

generate_plain_form requires verb class, tense, and formality parameters.

generate_volitional_form requires verb class, tense, and polarity parameters.

Installation

Use the package manager pip to install japaneseverbconjugator. If you want to install japaneseverbconjugator and its dependencies in a virtual environment, first create and activiate a virtual environment. If you want to change the virtual environment name to someting other than venv, replace the second venv with your desired name. Use that same name to replace venv in the second command.

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

If you run into trouble, see the Python Virtual Environment tutorial.

Method 1: Pip

After installing and activating the virtual environment, run the following commands to install japaneseverbconjugator and its dependencies.

pip install japaneseverbconjugator

Note

Pip may display an error during installation that includes the following message.

No matching distribution found for romkan (from JapaneseVerbConjugator)

In this case, run the command pip install romkan and then run pip install japaneseverbconjugator again.

You should be good to go! See the Usage section on how to get started using the library.

Method 2: Clone this repository

Go to the directory you want to clone this repository and run the following command.

git clone https://github.com/jShiohaha/JapaneseVerbConjugator.git

After installing the library, install the library dependencies via pip with the following command. The dependencies in requirements.txt will allow you to run the library and tests.

pip install -r requirements.txt

You should be good to go! See the Usage section on how to get started using the library.

Usage

Here is an example of how to import the library and use it.

from japaneseverbconjugator.src import JapaneseVerbFormGenerator as japaneseVerbFormGenerator
from japaneseverbconjugator.src.constants.EnumeratedTypes import VerbClass, Tense, Polarity

jvfg = japaneseVerbFormGenerator.JapaneseVerbFormGenerator() # creates JapaneseVerbFormGenerator instance
jvfg.generate_plain_form("飲む", VerbClass.GODAN, Tense.NONPAST, Polarity.POSTIIVE) # returns '飲む'
jvfg.generate_plain_form("飲む", VerbClass.GODAN, Tense.NONPAST, Polarity.NEGATIVE) # returns '飲まない'

The library will try to help validate the correctness of the verb by checking for invalid verb lengths, non-Japanese characters, and invalid verb endings. Limitation: this library cannot identify Chinese words with valid Japanese particle endings or nonexistent Japanese verbs.

Tests

Running tests should be done from japaneseverbsconjugator directory. Otherwise, you will get errors saying that Python cannot find certain modules needed for import.

The script named RunTests.sh makes it easy to run all the tests for this library. This repository includes the coverage package to track code coverage, and RunTests.sh will use this package if you instruct it to do so.

Run tests and view HTML coverage report

Use the following commands to run the tests and see the HTML coverage report in a browser.

./RunTests.sh html

Note: If this doesn't work, you can manually create and open the report with the following commands.

coverage html
open htmlcov/index.html

Run tests and view command line coverage report

Use the following commands to run the tests and see the coverage report on command line.

./RunTests.sh report

Run tests

Use the following commands to only run the tests with the unittest framework.

./RunTests.sh

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

This project uses a Python package named romkan, which has a BSD license. This project therefore has a BSD license.