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It ain't much, but it's honest work: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/finstem https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/finstem I moved to Finland a few years ago to be
by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
It ain't much, but it's honest work: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/finstem https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/finstem
I moved to Finland a few years ago to be with my then-fiancee, now-wife. I started learning Finnish and found that constantly going to Wiktionary to search for the root forms of their words was tough. Finnish nouns can have stem changes, vowel harmony, 15 declensions, possessive endings, clitics similar to Japanese particles... Brutal!
I wrote this to let me very quickly strip away all of that and get just the original dictionary forms of words. Later I wrapped it into a little `fzf` script to make it easy to analyze entire sentences or paragraphs at once.
The code is nothing special at all, but I use this thing dozens of times daily, and it's never let me down. I'm especially happy that it is useful for non-programmers as well -- I'd like to wrap it into a simple web app and throw that online too someday, once I've reached my own language goals of course!