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User’s Guide SYSTRAN 5.0 193
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 alternation 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 string 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 translator 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, for
example, house, flammability, or movement.
Noun phrase
A phrase that functions as a noun, and that has a noun as its head word.