Vocabulary issues Dutch --> Afrikaans about apertium-afr-nld HOT 3 OPEN

Some updates in 5c650bf.

For the nouns:

        <e><p><l>duikdiensverskaffer<s n="n"/></l><r>duikoperator<s n="n"/><s n="m"/></r></p></e>
        <e><p><l>nesplek<s n="n"/></l><r>nestplaats<s n="n"/><s n="mf"/></r></p></e>
        <e><p><l>kaktus<s n="n"/></l><r>cactus<s n="n"/><s n="m"/></r></p></e>
        <e><p><l>ontspanningsoord<s n="n"/></l><r>recreatieoord<s n="n"/><s n="nt"/></r></p></e>

Resulting in:

$ echo "duikoperator, nestplaats, cactus, recreatieoord"  | apertium -d . nld-afr
duikdiensverskaffer, nesplek, kaktus, ontspanningsoord

Could you check the gender.

For the preposition I'll add:

        <e><p><l>rondom<s n="pr"/></l><r>rond<s n="pr"/></r></p></e>

resulting in:

$ echo "rond"  | apertium -d . nld-afr
rondom

For licht (noun) --> lig, lichten (plural) --> ligte and lig, ligt, liggen (verb) --> lê, these exist:

    <e><p><l>lig<s n="n"/></l><r>licht<s n="n"/><s n="nt"/></r></p></e>
    <e><p><l>lig<s n="vblex"/></l><r>liggen<s n="vblex"/></r></p></e>

You could be experiencing a disambiguation error, could you give an example sentence ?

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Regarding licht/lichten → lig/ligte, it looks like an incorrect categorisation in the Afrikaans morphological dictionary:

<!--    <e lm="lig"><i>lig</i><par n="artikel__n"/></e>--><!-- check this -->
    <e lm="lig"><i>lig</i><par n="lys__n"/></e>

using the artikel__n paradigm instead of the lys__n paradigm.

After I change it, I get:

$ echo "licht, lichten" | apertium -d . nld-afr
lig, ligte

Is this correct?

I updated the apertium-afr-nld bidix to be:

    <e><p><l>lê<s n="vblex"/></l><r>liggen<s n="vblex"/></r></p></e>

and now get:

$ echo "het ligt, liggen, ligt" | apertium -d . nld-afr
dit lê, lê, lê

Is this correct?

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@ftyers Wow. Thanks!
Afrikaans has no gender. The Dutch genders seem fine.

Sentences with licht/ligt?

afr: dit lê op die grond -- nld: het ligt op de grond -- eng: it lies on the floor
afr: hulle lê op die grond -- nld: ze liggen op de grond -- eng: they are lying on the floor
afr: Ek lê op die bed -- nld: Ik lig op bed -- eng: I'm lying on my bed.

afr: Sit die ligte aan -- nld: doe de lichten aan -- eng: put the lights on.
afr:Alle lewende dinge op die Aarde het hitte en lig van die Son nodig -- nld: Alle levende wezens op aarde hebben de warmte en het licht van de zon nodig. -- eng: all liviing things on earth need the heat and the light of the sun.

In Dutch licht is a neuter noun.

Unfortunately it is more complicated that this.

Dutch has two verbs: liggen and leggen, like English lie and lay (to cause to lie). In Afrikaans this is both lê and this superposition holds for many causative pairs.

On top of that afr:lig and nld:licht can also be an adjective, like eng:light

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