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Function to check if a word is an adjective in its baseform in Finnish using libvoikko
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adjective.py
from libvoikko import Voikko
v = Voikko("fi")
def adjective(w):
analyzed = v.analyze(w)
for item in analyzed:
if "CLASS" in item and "laatusana" in item["CLASS"] and "SIJAMUOTO" in item and item[
"SIJAMUOTO"] == "nimento" and w == item["BASEFORM"]:
return True
return False
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timokoola commented Jul 6, 2017

Example of Voikko output

In [54]: v.analyze("tiine")
Out[54]:
[{'BASEFORM': 'tiine',
  'CLASS': 'laatusana',
  'COMPARISON': 'positive',
  'FSTOUTPUT': '[Ll][Xp]tiine[X]tiine[Sn][Ny]',
  'NUMBER': 'singular',
  'SIJAMUOTO': 'nimento',
  'STRUCTURE': '=ppppp',
  'WORDBASES': '+tiine(tiine)'}]

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