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First person: A pronoun that refers to the speaker. For example, I in “I see,” or We in “We are.” Also, a
verb form that refers to the speaker. For example, am in “I am,” or are in “We are.” Verb
inflection rarely indicates person in English, but in other languages, it often does.
H
Headword: In SYSTRAN terminology, the noun in a noun phrase that can change when plural, such as nut
in “lug nut,” Library in “Library of Congress,” and day in “red letter day.”
Homograph: In SYSTRAN terminology, one of two or more words that have the same spelling and are
different parts of speech (for example, noun and verb, or adjective and verb). For example, head as
in “head west” or “on the head,” and light, as in “the lightbox” and “light the match.”
I
Imperative: A verb form that is used to express an order or command. For example, Eat in “Eat your
vegetables.”
Infinitive: A verb form that is the ordinary dictionary-entry form. In English, it is often used with to as in
“He wants to eat.” It may also occur without to, for example, get in “I made them get in line,” or
with auxiliary verbs such as must as in “We must leave.”
Inflection: An alteration of the form of a word by adding suffixes without changing the basic meaning or
part of speech, as in making rugs from rug, or by changing the form of a base word, as in making
ate from eat.
M
Main clause: A clause that can stand alone as a complete and correct sentence. For example: “It was
raining.”
N
NFW: The acronym for Not Found Word.
Not Found Word: A word or expression that occurred in the text, but not in the dictionaries used in
translation.
Not Found Word List: An alphabetical list of all words in a text that were not found in the dictionaries
used for translation.
Not Found Word Marker: A mark that the user can select, which appears in the translation to indicate a
Not Found Word.
Noun: A word that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action.
Noun phrase: A phrase that functions as a noun, and that has a noun as its headword.
P
Parse: To break (a sentence) down into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form,
function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
Parser: In SYSTRAN terminology, the component of SYSTRAN v6 that performs syntactic or semantic
analysis of the Source text.
Participle: A verb form that can be used with an auxiliary verb. It can also function as an adjective or a
noun.