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[Spanish dictionary]: Imperative form of many verbs are missing. #3010

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martinprad0 opened this issue Feb 25, 2024 · 3 comments
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[Spanish dictionary]: Imperative form of many verbs are missing. #3010

martinprad0 opened this issue Feb 25, 2024 · 3 comments

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The dictionary is missing the words:

"Encontrar" (find):

  • "encuéntrela (feminine) / encuéntrelo (masculine) /encuéntrelos (plural)": Imperative form conjugation for "usted" (singular second person, formal)
  • "encuéntrala (feminine) /encuéntralo (masculine) / encuéntralos (plural)": Imperative form conjugation for "tu" (singular second person, informal)
  • "encuéntrenla (feminine) /encuéntrenlo (masculine) /encuéntrenlos (plural)": Imperative form conjugation for "ustedes" (plural second person)

The same happens for the verbs:

  • "Cocinar" (cook)
  • "Jugar" (play)
  • "Trabajar" (work)
  • "Arreglar" (fix)
  • "Ensuciar" (get dirty)

However, many verbs do have their imperative forms. For example,

  • "Buscar" (search)
  • "Imaginar" (imagine)
  • "Seguir" (follow)
@martinprad0 martinprad0 changed the title [ Spanish dictionary ]: Imperative form of many verbs missing. [Spanish dictionary]: Imperative form of many verbs missing. Feb 25, 2024
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Jason3S commented Feb 26, 2024

@martinprad0,

Thank you. I'll check to see what is happening.

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Jason3S commented Feb 26, 2024

@martinprad0,

These seem to be rare usages of the words. I checked a couple of Hunspell dictionaries and was unable to find encuéntrela. Even https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/encu%C3%A9ntrela doesn't list it under the conjugations of encontrar. It is clearly a form of encontrar, but doesn't seem to be common enough to be included in the Hunspell dictionaries I found.

Do you have a list of these words? Please add them to dictionaries/es_ES/src/additional_words.txt.

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martinprad0 commented Feb 26, 2024

Sure, I can find and post that list after I finish some work.

As an additional note, the usage of this imperative form is mostly found on exams and exercise statements. For example, if you have a system of equations and you want to say:

"Does the system of equations have a solution? If that's the case, find it."

For the last phrase, the translation should be:

"Si este es el caso, encuéntrela"

Sure, you could say:

"Si este es el caso, encuentre la solución"

But it is equivalent to saying

"If that's the case, find the solution"

It is clear that "it" is the solution you want to find. Thus, it's in some way redundant.

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