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Originally Posted by Rojofo
Hi r3turn3r, you have put your finger on what seems to me too a major defect of Spanish to English dictionaries for e-readers: they almost all are largely incapable of finding the infinitive of a verb form in a very inflected language. The defects seem incredible as though the dictionaries were compiled by people who don't understand that Spanish has complex inflected forms! There is little hope of being led to CANTAR in you come across CANTANDOLO for example but even the most simple regular inflected forms such as CANTABA are not recognised as forms of CANTAR. Sometimes one is pleasantly surprised to be led directly to the correct infinitive but it's not frequent whereas it should be the norm. There is a lot of progress to be made in this field in which even a few simple tweaks could bring considerable progress but the "experts" seem totally unaware of the fact that Spanish has complex inflected forms.
This will not help you I'm afraid but I share the same problem as you and probably many other readers who are learning that marvellous language with its very rich literature. Who knows perhaps some dictionary expert will become aware of the problem in the not too distant future!
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I have a python script that can 'inject' inflections to the dictionary. What it basically does is read dictionary via PyGlossary library, add inflections for every word when possible, save dictionary. As for the inflection source, I use 'unmunched' Hunspell dictionaries created by another script of mine. It does an okay job I think. I can share the scripts if someone wants.