RE: [Conjugnu-devl] Grammatical and other questions

[Nicolas D. <lu...@ea...>]

HI, Everybody:

Well, I will try to crack the questions about the verb tenses. First, there
is no such a thing as futuro anterior: could it be futuro perfecto? As for
the preterito anterior is one of the compound tenses: it's build with haber
plus the participle as in Yo hube comprado. It presents a past event as
"previous" to the past time you are talking about. e.g. Cuando todos se
hubieron ido, yo pude limpiar la casa.(IRSE as in "leave," is reflexive
thus the reflexive pronoun "se") It translates roughly as "Once everyone
had left, I was able to clean the house." It's a way to express the order
of events in the past - even in the past some things happened before
others. Gee, language is so linear, isn't it? No idea what the name in
English is, but has other denomination in Spanish: antepreterito. Whole
conjugation of HABER in antepreterito:

yo hube, tu hubiste, el/ella/Ud
hubo,nos.hubimos,vos.hubisteis,ellos/ellas/Uds. hubieron

Hope this helps.

Bye

Mrs. Diaz


> [Original Message]
> From: Luke Myers <ml...@ea...>
> To: ConjuGNU Devl List <con...@li...>
> Date: 3/11/05 9:39:52 AM
> Subject: [Conjugnu-devl] Grammatical and other questions
>
> 1) Leading up to the 4.0 release (codenamed arpeggios) I am trying to 

> finalize the class structure that keeps track of the tenses and their 

> conjugations.  Can anyone explain to what these two tenses do and tell 

> me what they are called in English?  Please respond to the list and not 

> to me directly.

> 

> preterito-anterior

> futuro-anterior

> 

> 2) Does anyone who is any good at web design have free time to clean up 

> my attempt at a web page (http://conjugnu.sourceforge.net)?  This person 

> might also design a replacement logo.

> 

> For everyone: take a look at the web page.  It gives an insight into 

> where I want to take development.  I would appreciate the input.

> 

> 3) Distribution and compiling:  This applies to the entire list as 

> well.  Input on these issues would be nice.  I'm thinking of community 

> distribution on CDs similar to what I do with Red Hat, OpenOffice.org, 

> and Gnoppix, only on a larger scale.  Everyone on the list will receive 

> an "official" 4.0 CD with binaries for Linux (x86 only, sorry), Mac OS 

> X, and Windows as well as the source.  Don't worry, I'll get one to you 

> somehow.  I'm also going to make up about 15 other 'cheap' copies (same 

> content, no fancy label) for distribution at school.

> 

> Michael, we really ought to work out getting you to install glib C and 

> gcc or helping me to find a cross-compiler.  It might be easier for me 

> to get a cross-compiler because I already have glib C installed, but 

> you'll need to test my binaries.

> 

> Does anyone here understand Windows development?  I've tried compiling 

> the source with a gcc cross-compiler for DOS, DJGPP, MinGW, Visual C++, 

> and Dev-Cpp, all with the same problems.  The code is in ANSI-compliant 

> C, so I don't understand why compiling should be an issue on another OS.

> 

> Cheers,

> Luke

> 

> 

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