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in reply to Draft - Lingua::ES::Conjugate

ˇHola Ea!

There are a lot more tenses in Spanish than the ones you mention:) Check for example: Wordreference (the one stop solution for this humble student of Castellano). You only posted a snippet of code, I went through it on github though.

I would probably have implemented it differently. I think I would have chopped up all different tenses in categories, e.g.

and use commonalities per category. NB there are even more tenses;)

Also with respect to irregular verbs there is also a lot of structure, e.g. types of irregularity. Furthermore sometimes verbs are only irregular in some person and/or in some tense(s). I think you can make use of this structure.

All in all you need about 90 ways of conjugating to cover close to a 100% of the verbs (based on the examples in my Spanish dictionary).

un abrazo

Harry