Features
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Abbr
: abbreviation
Abbreviation is a feature of X: other to mark abbreviations ending with a dot.
Yes: it is abbreviation
- dr. “doctor”
- npr. “for example”
- itd. “and so on”
- prim. “compare”
- B. O. “Barack Obama”
Conversion from JOS
Currently, all abbreviations are converted to X
and assigned the Abbr=Yes
feature.
Animacy
: animacy
In contrast to some other languages, the Slovenian tagset does not consider Animacy
to be a lexical feature, as certain types of inanimate nouns, such as institutions, personified objects, brand names etc., often take on both semantic and grammatical features of animate nouns.
Animacy is thus only marked as an inflectional feature of masculine nouns and proper nouns to distinguish between animate and inanimate word forms in accusative singular, e.g. Odstrigla si je koder. “She cut off a curl.” (inanimate) vs. Videla je kodra. “She saw a poodle.” (animate).
Anim
: animate
Animate
value is attributed to masculine nouns in accusative singular usually ending in -a:
- človeka “man”, delfina “dolphin”, Davida “David”, ministra “minister”
Note that grammatical animatness can also apply to semantically inanimate nouns, such as car names, personified objects, brand names, card names etc.
- Renaulta “Renault”, pomivalca “washing machine”, bordojca “Bordeaux wine”, asa “ace” etc.
Inan
: inanimate
Inanimate
value is attributed to all other masculine nouns in accusative singular:
- avto “car”, fikus “ficus”, čevelj “shoe”
Conversion from JOS
All nouns with Animate=yes are converted to Animacy=Anim
and all nouns with Animate=no are converted to Animacy=Inan
.
Aspect
: aspect
Aspect is a lexical feature of verbs that specifies the duration and completion of action in time.
Slovenian grammar distinguishes two aspect values: imperfect
and perfect
. Pairs of imperfective and perfective verbs exist and are often morphologically related, but the verbs are considered to belong to separate lemmas.
Imp
: imperfect aspect
The action took / takes / will take some time span and there is no information whether and when it was / will be completed.
- Danes se ni zgodilo nič posebnega. “Nothing special has happened today.”
Perf
: perfect aspect
The action has been / will have been completed. Since there is emphasis on one point on the time scale (the point of completion).
- Pogosto se je dogajalo, da je zamujal. “It often happened he was late.”
Verbs without Aspect
Verbs without Aspect
are considered to be biaspectual, i.e. they can either denote duration or completion, but their actual interpretation depends on the context.
- Takoj sem telefoniral na policijo. “I called the police immediately”
- Cel dan sem telefoniral, a se nihče ni javil. “I have been calling all day, but no one answered.”
Conversion from JOS
Verbs with Aspect=perfective are converted to Aspect=Perf
, verbs with Aspect=imperfective are converted Aspect=Imp
and verbs with Aspect=biaspectual are not assigned the Aspect
feature.
Case
: case
Case
is an inflectional feature of adjectives, determiners, nouns, numerals, pronouns and proper nouns, as well as a valency (lexical) feature of adpositions.
Slovenian morphology distinguishes six cases:
Nom
, Gen
, Dat
, Acc
, Loc
and Ins
.
Nom
: nominative
The base form of the noun, also used as citation form (lemma). This is the word form usually used for subjects of clauses and answers the question Kdo ali kaj (je)? “Who or what (is there)?”.
- Država je dala jamstva. “The state has given guarantees.”
Gen
: genitive
In addition to its prototypical meaning of a noun modifying another noun, genitive in Slovenian is used in certain syntactic positions, such as negation, or with certain prepositions. Word form in genetive answers the question Koga ali česa (ni)? “Who or what (is not there)?”
- prestolnica države “the country’s capital”
- Te države ni na zemljevidu. “This country is not in the map.”
- brez države “without country”, iz države “from country”
Dat
: dative
This is the word form often used for indirect objects of verbs. It answers the question Komu ali čemu (dam)? “To whom or what (do I give)?”
- služiti svoji državi “to serve one’s country”
- proti državi “against country”, k državi “to country”
Acc
: accusative
This is the word form most frequently used for direct objects of verbs. It answers the question Koga ali kaj (vidim)? “Who or what (do I see)?”
- napasti državo “to attack a country”
- za državo “for country”, v državo “in/to country”
Loc
: locative
The locative case often expresses location in space or time, but non-locational meanings also exist. The locative word form answers the question O kom ali čem (govorim)? “Of whom or what (do I speak)?” and usually appears with a preposition.
- v državi “in the country”, po državi “throughout the country”, o državi “about the country”
Ins
: instrumental
The instrumental case often expresses the instrument, means or accompaniment of an action, but other meanings also exist. The instrumental word form answers the question S kom ali čim (delam)? “With whom or what (do I work)?”
- z državo “ith country”, pred državo “before country”, nad državo “above country”
Conversion from JOS
Tokens with feature Case=nominative are converted to Case=Nom
, tokens with feature Case=genitive are converted to Case=Gen
, tokens with feature Case=dative are converted to Case=Dat
, tokens with feature Case=accusative are converted to Case=Acc
, tokens with feature Case=locative are converted to Case=Loc
, tokens with feature Case=instrumental are converted to Case=Ins
.
Definite
: definiteness or state
Definiteness in Slovenian is an inflectional feature of masculine word forms in nominative and accusative singular that distinguishes whether we are talking about something known and concrete, or something general or unknown. It is currently marked on some adjectives and some determiners.
Ind
: indefinite
Examples
- rdeč avto “a red car”
- dvojen umor “a double homicide”
- drug način “another way”
- sosedov sin “neighbour’s son”
Def
: definite
Examples
- rdeči avto “the red car”
- dvojni umor “the double homicide”
- drugi način “the other way”
- slovenski grb “the Slovenian coat-of-arms”
Conversion from JOS
All adjectives and numerals with feature Definiteness=yes are converted to Definite=Def
and all adjectives and numerals with feature Definiteness=no are converted to Definite=Ind
.
However, note that definiteness has not been sufficiently solved within JOS, as it could also be attributed to other POS categories or category types, such as ordinal written numerals (prvi, drugi, tretji) and pronouns (neki). Consequently, some inconsistencies occur, as different JOS categories are merged into one UD category. For example, JOS-adjective slovenski “Slovenian” has feature Definite=Def
, whereas JOS-numeral prvi “the first” does not have any Definite
feature, although they are both tagged as UD ADJ
and display identical grammatical characteristics.
Degree
: degree of comparison
Degree of comparison is an inflectional feature of some adjectives and adverbs.
Pos
: positive, first degree
This is the base form that merely states a quality of something, without comparing it to qualities of others.
Examples
- star človek “an old man”
- hitro narejeno “quickly done”
Cmp
: comparative, second degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of another object. For most adverbs, two different word forms can be used interchangeably.
Examples
- starejši človek “an older man”
- hitreje / hitrejše narejeno “done more quickly”
Sup
: superlative, third degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set. For most adverbs, two different word forms can be used interchangeably.
Examples
- najstarejši človek “the oldest man”
- najhitreje / najhitrejše narejeno “done most quickly”
Conversion from JOS
All adjectives and adverbs with feature Degree=positive are converted to Degree=Pos
, all adjectives and adverbs with feature Degree=comparative are converted to Degree=Cmp
, all adjectives and adverbs with Degree=superlative are converted to Degree=Sup
.
Foreign
: This is this a foreign word
Foreign
is a lexical feature of some words belonging to class X: other. It is assigned to intervening foreign words that have not been analyzed grammatically. These can appear as a string or in combination with other Slovenian words. If a word is commonly used in Slovenian and displays Slovenian grammatical behavior, such as inflection, it is considered to be a Slovenian (loan) word, not a foreign word.
Foreign: it is foreign
Examples
- de in Rio de Janeiro
- of in Life of Brian
- the in Billy the Kid
Conversion from JOS
All tokens with tag Residual and Type=foreign are converted to X
and Foreign=Yes.
Gender
: gender
Gender is a lexical feature of nouns and proper nouns, and an inflectional feature of other parts of speech (adjectives, verbs, auxiliary, pronouns, determiners and numerals) that mark agreement with nouns.
Masc
: masculine gender
Examples
- prijatelj “male friend”
- sluga “manservant”
- grad “castle”
- stroj “machine”
Fem
: feminine gender
Examples
- prijateljica “female friend”
- bankirka “female banker”
- univerza “university”
- perut “wing”
Neut
: neuter gender
Examples
- leto “year”
- življenje “life”
- podjetje “company”
- sodišče “court”
Conversion from JOS
All tokens with feature Gender=masculine are converted to Gender=Masc
, all tokens with feature Gender=feminine are converted to Gender=Fem
and all tokens with feature Gender=neuter are converted to Gender=Neut
.
Gender[psor]
: possessor’s gender
Possessive pronouns and determiners may have two different genders: that of the possessed object (in agreement with the modifying noun, inflectional feature) and that of the possessor (inherent, lexical feature). The Gender[psor]
feature denotes the possessor’s gender.
Masc
: masculine possessor
Examples
- njegova hčerka “his daughter”
Gender[psor]=Masc|Gender=Fem
Fem
: feminine possessor
Examples
- njena hčerka “her daughter”
Gender[psor]=Fem|Gender=Fem
Neut
: neuter possessor
As possessor can also be a neuter noun, we also distinguish the neuter possessor gender. However, its word forms are identical to that of masculine possessor gender and can only be disambiguated within context.
Examples
- Kupili smo novo letalo.
Gender=Neut
. Premer njegovih kril je 7 metrov. “We bought a new airplane. Its wingspan is 7 meters.”Gender[psor]=Neut
- Kupili smo nov avto.
Gender=Masc
. Premer njegovih platišč je 15 col. “We bought a new care. Its wheel radius is 15 inch.
Conversion from JOS
All pronouns with feature Owner_gender=masculine are converted to Gender[psor]=Masc
, all pronouns with Owner_gender=feminine are converted to Gender[psor]=Fem
and all pronouns with Owner_gender=neuter are converted to Gender[psor]=Neut
.
Note that JOS annotation scheme does not assign possessor’s gender to possessive adjectives. For example, the possessive adjectival word form sinova (son’s) in sinova mama “son’s mother” is currently annotated with Gender=Fem
, whereas it should be annotated with Gender[psor]=Masc|Gender=Fem
in the future.
Mood
: mood
Mood is a feature that expresses modality and subclassifies finite verb forms. It is an inflectional feature of auxiliaries and verbs.
Ind
: indicative
The indicative can be considered the default mood. A verb in indicative merely states that something happens, has happened or will happen, without adding any attitude of the speaker.
Examples
- Govorim angleško in francosko. “I speak English and French.”
- Proslava bo naslednji petek. “The celebration will take place next Friday.”
Imp
: imperative
The speaker uses imperative to order or ask the addressee to do the action of the verb.
Examples
- Pomij posodo! “Wash the dishes.”
- Poglejmo, kaj ste naredili. “Let’s have a look at what you have done.”
- Pospravite ta nered. “Clean up this mess!”
Cnd
: conditional
Generally, the conditional mood is used to express actions that would have taken place under some circumstances but they actually did not / do not happen. In Slovenian, present and past conditional are formed using the participle of the content verb and a special conditional form of the auxiliary verb biti “to be”. Thus, only this form is marked as Cnd
, regardless of whether it is used to form a conditional or any other type of modality.
Examples
- Če bi se več učil, bi naredil izpit. “If I had studied more, I would have passed the exam.”
- Da bi preglasil njihov pogovor, sem prižgal radio. “To drown out their conversation, I turned on the radio.”
- Roparji naj bi pobrali prav vse. “The robbers are supposed to have taken everything.”
- Naslednji petek bi prišli k vam na obisk. “We are thinking of visiting you next Friday.”
Conversion from JOS
All verbs with VForm=present and VForm=future are converted to Mood=Ind
, all verbs with VForm=imperative are converted to Mood=Imp
and all verbs with VForm=conditional are converted to Mood=Cnd
. The non-finite verb forms (participle, infinitive, supine) do not have any Mood
.
Negative
: whether the word can be or is negated
In Slovenian, negation can be expressed in different ways. Syntactically, it can be marked by using negation particle ne “not”, as in Tega ne vem “I do not know that.” or Šli smo na ne najbolj zanimivo predavanje. “We attended a not too interesting lecture.”, or by using special negated verb form, as in To ni ona. “This is not her.” Morhplogically, negation is marked by prefix ne-, as in nepravičen “unfair”, neželen “unwanted” etc.
In the Slovenian UD Treebank, we currently only mark negation as an inflectional feature of a limited set of verbs and auxiliaries: biti “to be”, imeti “to have”, hoteti “to want”.
Neg
: negative
Negative
is assigned to negated word forms of verbs biti, imeti, hoteti.
Examples
- nisem “I am not”, nisi “you are not”, ni “he/she/it is not” etc.
- nimam “I do not have”, nimaš “you do not have”, nima “he/she/it does not have” etc.
- nočem “I do not want”, nočeš “you do not want”, nočemo “he/she/it does not want” etc.
Pos
: positive, affirmative
Positive
is assigned to non-negated word forms of verbs biti, imeti, hoteti with identical set of other grammatical features.
Examples
- sem “I am”, nisi “you are”, je “he/she/it is” etc.
- imam “I have”, imaš “you have”, ima “he/she/it has” etc.
- hočem “I want”, hočeš “you want”, hočemo “he/she/it wants” etc.
Conversion from JOS
All verbs with feature Negative=no are converted to Negative=Pos
and all verbs with feature Negative=yes are converted to Negative=Neg
.
NumForm
: numeral form
NumForm
is a lexical feature of numerals that marks whether the number is expressed by digits or letters.
Word: number expressed as word
Examples
- en “one”, dva “two”, tri “three”
- enoj “one-fold”, dvoj “two-fold”, troj “three-fold”
Digit: number expressed using digits
Examples
- 1, 2, 3
- 1., 2., 3.
Roman: roman numeral
Examples
- I, II, III
- I., II., III.
Conversion from JOS
NumForm
is assigned to all numerals that are converted to UD NUM
. Numerals with Form=digit are converted to NumForm=Digit
, numerals with Form=roman are converted to NumForm=Roman
and numerals with Form=letter are converted to NumForm=Word
. Note, however, that (word) numerals that are converted to UD ADJ
, do not have any NumForm
.
NumType
: numeral type
In Slovenian UD Treebank, NumType
is a lexical feature of numerals and some adjectives that denote counting by numbers.
Card
: cardinal number
Examples
- en, dva, tri “one, two, three”
- 1, 2, 3
- I, II, III
Ord
: ordinal number
Examples
- prvi, drugi, tretji “first, second, third”
- 1., 2., 3.
- I., II., III.
Sets
: number of sets of things
Numerals used to count sets of things or nouns that are pluralia tantum.
Examples
- enoj, dvoj, troj “one-fold, two-fold, three-fold”
Gen
: generic numeral, i.e. a numeral that is neither of the above
Examples
- enojen, dvojen, trojen “single, double, triple”
Conversion from JOS
All numerals with Type=cardinal are converted to NumType=Card
and all numerals with Type=ordinal are converted to NumType=Ord
. Numerals with Type=pronominal are either converted to NumType=Card
(lemmas en and eden) or to NumType=Ord
(lemma drug). Numerals with Type=special are either converted to NumType=Sets
(lemmas not ending in -en) or to NumType=Gen
(lemmas ending in -en).
Note that other types of quantifying words have not been explicitly marked in JOS, so assigning these and other NumType
values to other words or part-of-speech categories, such as adjectives (enkraten, dvakraten, trikraten), adverbs (enkrat, dvakrat, trikrat; prvič, drugič, tretjič), determiners (veliko, malo, nekaj, koliko) and nouns (tretjina, polovica, četrtina), remains for future work.
Number
: number
In Slovenian, Number
is an inflectional feature of nouns and proper nouns, and other parts of speech (adjectives, auxiliaries, determiners, numerals, pronouns, verbs) that mark agreement with nouns.
Slovenian distinguishes three Number
values: singular
, dual
and plural
. Plurale tantum and Singulare tantum are not explicitly marked and are tagged as plural
or singular
, respectively.
Sing
: singular number
Examples
- kolo “one bicycle”
- en gospod “one gentleman”
- moja pisarna “my office”
- sem “I am”
Dual
: dual number
Examples
- kolesi “two bicycles”
- dva gospoda “two gentlemen”
- moji pisarni “my two offices”
- sva “we (two) are”
Plur
: plural number
Examples
- kolesa “two bicycles”
- trije gospodi “three gentlemen”
- moje pisarne “my (three or more) offices”
- smo “we (three or four) are”
Conversion from JOS
All tokens with feature Number=singular are converted to Number=Sing
, all tokens with Number=dual are converted to Number=Dual
and all tokens with Number=plural are converted to Number=Plur
.
Number[psor]
: possessor’s number
Possessive pronouns and determiners may have two different numbers: that of the possessed object (in agreement with the modifying noun, inflectional feature) and that of the possessor (inherent, lexical feature). The Number[psor]
feature denotes the possessor’s number.
Sing
: singular possessor
Examples
- moj balon “my balloon”
Number[psor]=Sing|Number=Sing
- moja balona “my (two) balloons”
Number[psor]=Sing|Number=Dual
- moji baloni “my (three or more) balloons”
Number[psor]=Sing|Number=Plur
Dual
: dual possessor
Examples
- najin balon “my and your balloon”
Number[psor]=Dual|Number=Sing
- najina balona “my and your (two) balloons”
Number[psor]=Dual|Number=Dual
- najini baloni “my and your (three or more) balloons”
Number[psor]=Dual|Number=Plur
Plur
: plura possessor
Examples
- naš balon “our balloon”
Number[psor]=Plur|Number=Sing
- naša balona “our (two) balloons”
Number[psor]=Plur|Number=Dual
- naši baloni “our (three or more) balloons”
Number[psor]=Plur|Number=Plur
Conversion from JOS
All pronouns with feature Owner_number=singular are converted to Number[psor]=Sing
, all pronouns with Owner_number=dual are converted to Number[psor]=Dual
and all pronouns with Owner_number=plural are converted to Number[psor]=Plur
.
Person
: person
Person is a lexical feature of personal and possessive pronouns and determiners, and an inflectional feature of auxiliaries and verbs.
1
: first person
Examples
- jaz sem I am”
- moj avto “my car”
- sem “I am”
- grem “I go”
2
: second person
Examples
- ti si “you are”
- tvoj avto “your car”
- si “you are”
- greš “you go”
3
: third person
Examples
- ona je “she is”
- njen avto “her car”
- je “he/she/it is”
- gre “he/she/it goes”
Conversion from JOS
All tokens with feature Person=first are converted to Person=1
, all tokens with feature Person=second are converted to Person=2
and all tokens with feature Person=third are converted to Person=3
.
Poss
: possessive
Possessive
is a lexical feature of adjectives, determiners and pronouns. It tells whether the word is possessive. Words without the Poss
feature are not possessive.
Yes
: it is possessive
Examples
- mamin “mother’s”, vanilijev “vanilla’s”
- moj, “my/mine”, naš “our/ours”
- svoj “one’s own”
Conversion from JOS
All adjectives and pronouns with Type=possessive are converted to Poss=Yes
. Additionally, the reflexive pronoun svoj is also converted to Poss=Yes
. Note that within JOS annotation scheme, possessiveness is not explicitly marked with other types of pronouns that denote possession, such as ćigav, čigaver, nikogaršnji etc.
PronType
: pronominal type
This is a lexical feature of pronouns and some determiners.
Prs
: personal pronoun or determiner
This feature includes both nominal personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns or determiners.
Examples
- jaz “I”, ti “you”, on “on”, ona “she” etc.
- moj “my/mine”, tvoj “your/yours”, njegov “his”, njen “her/hers” etc.
- se “oneself”, svoj “one’s own”
Int
: interrogative pronoun or determiner
Examples:
- kdo “who”
- kaj “what”
- kakšen “what kind of”
- kateri “which”
- čigav “whose”
Rel
: relative pronoun or determiner
Examples:
- kar “which/that”
- kdor “who”
- ćigar “kdor”
- kakršen “as/like”
- karkoli “anything”
- kdorkoli “anyone”
- kakršenkoli “any, of any kind”
Dem
: demonstrative pronoun or determiner
Examples
- ta “this”
- tisti “that”
- takšen “such”
- tale “this here”
- oni “that there”
- tak “such”
- tadva “these two”
Tot
: total (collective) pronoun or determiner
Examples
- ves “all”
- vsak “each”
- vsakdo “everyone”* oba “both”
- vsakršen “any kind”
Neg
: negative pronoun, determiner or adverb
Examples
- nič “nothing”
- nihče, noben, nobeden “nobody”
- nikakršen, nikak “no kind”
- nikogaršnji “nobody’s”
- nikak “no way”
Ind
: indefinite pronoun, determiner, numeral or adverb
Examples
- nekateri “some/someone”
- nekaj “something”
- isti “same”
- nek, nekakšen “some kind of”
- mnog, premnog “many”
- marsikaj “many”
Conversion from JOS
All pronouns with feature Type=personal, Type=reflexive and Type=possessive are converted to UD PronType=Prs
. All pronouns with Type=interrogative are converted to UD PronType=Int
, all pronouns with Type=relative are converted to UD PronType=Rel
, all pronouns with Type=demonstrative are converted to UD PronType=Dem
, all pronouns with Type=general are converted to UD PronType=Tot
, all pronouns with Type=negative are converted to UD PronType=Neg
and all pronouns with Type=indefinite are converted to UD PronType=Ind
.
Not that currently PronType
is only assigned to pronouns and determiners, but not to other POS categories, such as adverbs (zakaj “why”, čemu “what for”, kako “how”, tukaj “here”, tam “there”, tolikokrat “this many times” etc.)
Reflex
: reflexive
Reflexiveness is a lexical feature of some pronouns and determiners. It tells whether the word is reflexive, i.e. refers to the subject of its clause.
We distinguish three types of reflexive word forms in Slovenian: reflexive pronoun se “oneself”, bound reflexive pronouns (e.g. zase “for oneself”) and possessive pronoun/determiner svoj “one’s own”.
Note that reflexive pronoun se can also be used in subjectless passive constructions and as a free morpheme of pseudo-reflexive verbs.
Yes
: it is reflexive
Examples
- Sebi vedno odreže največji kos. “She always cuts the biggest piece for herself.”
- Marko si je kupil klobik. “Marko bought himself a hat.”
- Brina si je počesala lase. “Brina has combed her hair”.
- Marko in Peter se sovražita. “Marko and Peter hate each other.”
- To se bo naredilo jutri. “This will be done tomorrow.”
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Smejali sva se vso noč. “We laughed all night.”
-
Vsak mora poskrbeti zase. “Everybody has to take care of themselves”.
- Sledil je svojim sanjam. “He followed his dreams.”
Conversion to JOS
All pronouns with feature Type=reflexive are converted to UD Reflexice=Yes
.
Tense
: tense
Tense is an inflectional feature of nouns and auxiliaries that specifies the time when the action took / takes / will take place, in relation to the current moment or to another action in the utterance. In Slovenian, only Present
tense and Future
tense can be expressed morphologically, while past tense is formed syntactically, by a combination of a present auxiliary verb biti “to be” and past participle (l-participle), e.g. sem šel “I went”.
Pres
: present tense
The present tense denotes actions that are happening right now or that usually happen.
Examples
- vem “I know”, veš “you know”, ve “he/she/it knows” etc.
- Študiram jezike. “I study languages.”
Fut
: future tense
The future tense denotes actions that will happen after the current moment. Simmilarly to past tense, future tense for most Slovenian verbs is formed by a combination of future auxiliary verb biti “to be “ and l-participle (bom hodil “I will walk”). Thus, the Tense=Fut
feature is only to biti that can either be used as a content or auxiliary verb.
Examples:
- bom “I will”, boš “you will”, bo “he/she/it will” etc.
- Sestanek bo jutri. “The meeting will be held tomorrow”.
- Vrnila se bo čez en teden. “She will come back in a week.”
Conversion from JOS
All verbs with VForm=present are converted to UD Tense=Pres
and all verbs with VForm=future are converted to UD Ťense=Fut
. We do not assign tense to other verb forms, such as participle, infinitive, supine, conditional and imperative.
Variant
: alternative form of word
In Slovenian, the Variant
feature is either a lexical or inflectional features of some pronouns.
Bound
: bound form
This value is assigned as a lexical feature of fused combinations of prepositions and personal pronouns that are currently tokenized as one word form and annotated as personal pronouns.
Examples
- To je zame preveč. “This is too much for me”
- Skozenj je stekel električni tok. “Electric current ran through him.”
- Prednjo so postavili kozarec vina. “A glass of wine was put in front of her.”
Short
: clitic form
This value is assigned as an inflectional feature to clitic personal pronouns in genitive, dative and accusative to distinguish them from their longer counterparts with the same lemma and set of features.
Examples
- ga (“him”, variant of njega)
- jih (“them”, variant of njih)
- jo (“her”, variant of njo)
- mi (“to me”, variant of meni) *se (“oneself”, used either as a variant of reflexive pronoun sebi or as an obligatory free morpheme with pseudo-reflexive verbs, such as smejati se “to laugh”)
VerbForm
: form of verb or deverbative
Principally, VerbForm
is an inflectional feature of verbs and auxiliaries, however, it is also used as a lexical feature of some adjectives and adverbs.
Fin
: finite verb
Verbs that have a non-empty Mood are considered finite.
Examples
- študiram, študiraš, študira “I study, you study, he/she/it studies”
- študiraj, študirajmo, študirajte “study!-sing, let’s study!, study!-plur”
- bom, boš, bo “I will, you will, he/she/it will”
- bi “would”
Inf
: infinitive
Infinitive is the citation form of verbs and it appears as the argument of modal and other verbs.
Examples
- študirati “to study”
- biti “to be”
Part
: participle
Participle is a non-finite verb form that shares properties of verbs and adjectives. We distinguish two groups of participles: l-participles that can either be classified as verbs or adjectives, and all other participles (usually ending in -č, -n, or -t) that are always classified as adjectives, regardless of whether they are used as attributes or predicates.
As verbs, L-participles are used to form the past and future tense, and the conditional mood in present or past tense. As adjectives, both groups of participles can be used either as noun attributes (ukradena denarnica “stolen wallet”), as subject complements (denarnica je ukradena “the wallet is stolen”) or in passive constructions (denarnica je bila ukradena “the wallet has been stolen”).
Examples
- zgorel, zgorelo, zgorela, zgoreli “burned” (past participle in different genders and numbers)
- zgorel, zgorelega, zgorelemu, zgorelega … “burnt” (participial adjective in different genders, numbers and cases)
- ukraden, ukradenega, ukradenemu, ukradenega …“stolen” (participial adjective in different genders, numbers and cases)
Trans
: transgressive
The transgressive, also called adverbial participle, is a non-finite verb form that shares properties of verbs and adverbs. In Slovenian, transgressives
are always marked as adverbs.
Examples
- rekoč “having said”
- sodeč “judging”
- upoštevaje “taking into account”
- nevede “unknowingly”
Conversion from JOS
All verbs with feature VForm=present, VForm=future, VForm=conditional and VForm=imperative are converted to UD VerbForm=Fin
. All verbs with VForm=Infinitive are converted to UD VerbForm=Inf
, all verbs with VForm=Supine are converted to UD VerbForm=Supine
, and all verbs with VForm=Participle are converted to UD VerbForm=Part
. Additionally, all adjectives with Type=participle are converted to UD VerbForm=Part
and all adverbs with Type=participle are converted to UD VerbForm=Trans
.
Note that gerunds
are currently marked as nouns and do not have a special VerbForm
feature to distinguish them from other common nouns.