Assuming the head of your NP is utrum then it would go m> ut. Nob - dan goes m, 
f, mf to ut , nt to nt 
Jonas

On 11/09/2013, at 08.38, Per Tunedal <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> Apertium presupposes that the form in the source language could be
> generated in the target language, right? What if the form doesn't exist
> in the target language? How to handle that?
> 
> The Swedish adjective "blå" (=blue) might have the old-fashioned
> masculine definite form ending on -e: blåe, just as most other
> adjectives. As far as I know there isn't any masculine form in Danish,
> anyhow there isn't anyone in the original Danish monodix. How do I
> manage to translate "blåe" to Danish? It's analysed as adj.pst.m.sg.def,
> but a similar form doesn't exist in Danish.
> 
> sv:
> <pardef n="blå__adj">
>  <e a="is">       <p><l></l>         <r><s n="adj"/><s n="pst"/><s
>  n="ut"/><s n="sg"/><s n="ind"/></r></p></e>
>  <e>       <p><l>tt</l>        <r><s n="adj"/><s n="pst"/><s n="nt"/><s
>  n="sg"/><s n="ind"/></r></p></e>
>  <e r="LR" a="PT">       <p><l>e</l>        <r><s n="adj"/><s
>  n="pst"/><s n="m"/><s n="sg"/><s n="def"/></r></p></e>
>  <e>       <p><l>a</l>        <r><s n="adj"/><s n="pst"/><s n="un"/><s
>  n="pl"/><s n="ind"/></r></p></e>
>  <e>       <p><l>a</l>        <r><s n="adj"/><s n="pst"/><s n="un"/><s
>  n="sp"/><s n="def"/></r></p></e>
>  <e r="LR" a="PT">       <p><l></l>        <r><s n="adj"/><s
>  n="pst"/><s n="un"/><s n="sp"/><s n="def"/></r></p></e>
> 
>  <e>       <p><l>are</l>       <r><s n="adj"/><s n="comp"/><s
>  n="un"/><s n="sp"/></r></p></e>
>  <e>       <p><l>ast</l>       <r><s n="adj"/><s n="sup"/><s n="un"/><s
>  n="sp"/><s n="ind"/></r></p></e>
>  <e>       <p><l>aste</l>      <r><s n="adj"/><s n="sup"/><s n="un"/><s
>  n="sp"/><s n="def"/></r></p></e>
> </pardef>
> 
> da:
> <pardef n="blå__adj"> <!-- Model #1 -->
>  <e>       <p><l></l>          <r><s n="adj"/><s n="pst"/><s n="ut"/><s
>  n="sg"/><s n="ind"/></r></p></e> <!-- en blå bold -->
>  <e>       <p><l>t</l>         <r><s n="adj"/><s n="pst"/><s n="nt"/><s
>  n="sg"/><s n="ind"/></r></p></e> <!-- et blåt bord -->
>  <e>       <p><l>e</l>         <r><s n="adj"/><s n="pst"/><s n="un"/><s
>  n="pl"/><s n="ind"/></r></p></e> <!-- de blåe bolde, de runde borde
>  -->
>  <e>       <p><l></l>         <r><s n="adj"/><s n="pst"/><s n="un"/><s
>  n="sp"/><s n="def"/></r></p></e> <!-- den blå bold, det runde bord -->
> 
>  <e>       <p><l>ere</l>       <r><s n="adj"/><s n="comp"/><s
>  n="un"/><s n="sp"/></r></p></e> <!-- blåere bold/bolde/bord/borde -->
>  <e>       <p><l>est</l>       <r><s n="adj"/><s n="sup"/><s n="un"/><s
>  n="sp"/><s n="ind"/></r></p></e> <!-- en bold er blåest -->
>  <e>       <p><l>este</l>      <r><s n="adj"/><s n="sup"/><s n="un"/><s
>  n="sp"/><s n="def"/></r></p></e> <!-- den blåeste bold, "de blåeste
>  bolde" og "det blåest træ" -->
> </pardef>
> 
> BTW A similar problem would occur if I ever try to translate French or
> Spanish to Swedish: In French and Spanish verbs in subjunctive form
> flourish, but they doesn't exist in Swedish (except in some rare cases,
> mainly idiomatic expressions). How is this handled in the pair en-es?
> 
> Yours,
> Per Tunedal
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