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Wilhelm Vocabulary

The data that serves wilhelmlang.com. They are written in YAML format, because

1. it is machine-readable so that it can be consumed quickly in data pipelines
2. it is human-readable and, thus, easy to modify
3. it supports multi-lines value which is very handy for data of natural languages

YAML Schema

The parenthesized value at the beginning of each definition item played an un-ignorable role: it is the label of the relationship between term and defintion in graph database loaded by Wilhelm SDK. For example, both German words

- term: denn
  definition:
    - (adv.) then, thus
    - (conj.) because

and

 - term: nämlich
   definition:
     - (adj.) same
     - (adv.) namely
     - (adv.) because

can mean "because" acting as different types. This is visualized as follows:

Visualzing synonyms this way presents a big advantage to human brain who is exceedingly good at memorizing patterns

German

vocabulary:
  - term: string
    definition: list
    plural: string
    declension/conjugation: string

• The conjugation is the inflection paradigm for a German verb and declension the inflection for nouns and adjectives. Only one of the two is present for a term.

• The type of the word can be inferred using the following rule

  • term with a definite article of "der"/"die"/"das" and a field of plural that comes with it signifies a noun

  • Those with conjugation field denotes a verb; its definition also begins with an indefinite form, i.e. "to ..."

  • The rests are explicitly stated in the definition field. For example,

      - term: ob
        definition:
          - (conj.) if
          - (conj.) whether
    

    means "ob" is a conjunction in this case and

      - term: denn
        definition:
          - (adv.) then, thus
          - (conj.) because
    

    tells that "denn" can be adverb or conjunction

• The declension/conjugation table employees an application-specific YAML that looks like the following:

    - term: ein
      definition: (article) a, an
      declension:
        - [-         , masculine, feminine, neuter, plural]
        - [nominative, ein,       eine,     ein,    -     ]
        - [genitive,   eines,     einer,    eines,  -     ]
        - [dative,     einem,     einer,    einem,  -     ]
        - [accusative, einen,     eine,     ein,    -     ]
  

  The declension table is equivalent to

  	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
  nominative	ein	eine	ein	-
  genitive	eines	einer	eines	-
  dative	einem	einer	einem	-
  accusative	einen	eine	ein	-

  The declension/conjugation tables for all vocabularies are sourced from Wiktionary

Korean

中国人学习韩语有先天优势，加之韩语本身也是一门相当简单的语言， 所以这里将语法和词汇合并在一起； 每一项也只由 term（韩）和 definition（中）组成，

vocabulary:
  - term: string
    definition: list

Classical Hebrew (Coming Soon)

The vocabulary is presented to help read and understand Biblical Hebrew. A complementary audio helps well with the pronunciation.

Ancient Greek

vocabulary:
  - term: string
    definition: list

Latin

vocabulary:
  - term: string
    definition: list

License

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