User Guide

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Separable Particles
Particles are words added before a verb, such as a prefix. Some particles can be separated
from the verb in certain languages, while others must remain connected.
In German and Dutch, the presence of separable particles in verbs can be indicated using a
tilde “~”character between the particle and verb. In the following example, “um” is the
separable particle, as indicated by the “~”.
UD Entry Example
English French Spanish German
to run over écraser atropellar um~fahren
Translation Example
First Coding
Source Text (English) English German Target Text (German)
The car ran over the dog. to run over umfahren Das Auto umfuhr den Hund.
Enriched Coding
The car ran over the dog. to run over um~fahren Das Auto fuhr den Hund um.
Additional Clues
You can attach additional linguistic information to each UD entry when you have more
complex translation requirements. These entries can include:
• Grammatical category
• Specifying gender and number
• Specifying inflected forms
• Prepositions
• Conditional entries
• Variants
• Syntactic information
• Semantic categorization
These additional clues generally have localized and abbreviated variants. The available clues
for each language are described in separate documents placed on your PC during the
SYSTRAN 7 installation. The default location is:
c:/Program Files/SYSTRAN/SYSTRAN 7/Doc
These files are named CodingReference_xx.html, where xx is the iso 639 code of the
language.
Some of the information provided through additional clues is also available through
intuitive clues, such as grammatical category, gender, and number. The type of entry
used depends on the complexity and size of the dictionary.