Daily Challenge #307 - Spanish Conjugator

#challenge

In Spanish, verbs change according to the person we're talking about. Something similar happens in English when we use the third person singular pronouns he/she:

I run
You run
He/She runs

Spanish is similar, the suffix changes depending on who we're talking about. Your task is to write a function called conjugate which will return a Spanish verb in all of its conjugations.

Examples

conjugate(comer)
["como", "comes", "come", "comemos", "coméis", "comen"]

conjugate(vivir)
["vivo", "vives", "vive", "vivimos", "vivís", "viven"]

Tests

conjugate(comer)
conjugate(bailar)
conjugate(caminar)

Good luck!

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Top comments (7)

peter279k • Nov 12 '20

Here is the simple solution in Python:

def conjugate(verb):
    verb = verb.lower()
    ans = {}
    if (verb[-2] + verb[-1]) == 'ar':
        ans[verb] = [
            verb[0:-2] + 'o',
            verb[0:-2] + 'as',
            verb[0:-1] + '',
            verb[0:-2] + 'amos',
            verb[0:-2] + 'ais',
            verb[0:-2] + 'an',
        ]
    if (verb[-2] + verb[-1]) == 'er':
        ans[verb] = [
            verb[0:-2] + 'o',
            verb[0:-2] + 'es',
            verb[0:-1] + '',
            verb[0:-2] + 'emos',
            verb[0:-2] + 'eis',
            verb[0:-2] + 'en',
        ]
    if (verb[-2] + verb[-1]) == 'ir':
        ans[verb] = [
            verb[0:-2] + 'o',
            verb[0:-2] + 'es',
            verb[0:-2] + 'e',
            verb[0:-2] + 'imos',
            verb[0:-2] + 'is',
            verb[0:-2] + 'en',
        ]

    return ans

agtoever • Nov 14 '20 • Edited

Nice answer. Here is a suggestion that gets rid of the duplicate code by putting the verb endings in a dict and using a comprehension to give the result:

def conjugate(verb):
    verb = verb.lower()
    conj = {
        'ar': ['o', 'as', '', 'amos', 'ais', 'an'],
        'er': ['o', 'es', '', 'emos', 'eis', 'en'],
        'ir': ['o', 'es', 'e', 'imos', 'is', 'en']
    }
    return [verb[:-2] + c if len(c) > 0 else verb[:-1] + c for c in conj[verb[-2:]]]

Amin • Nov 12 '20

Haskel

conjugate :: String -> [String]
conjugate verb
    | suffix == "er"    = prepend base ["o", "es", "e", "emos", "eis", "en"]
    | suffix == "ir"    = prepend base ["o", "es", "e", "imos", "is", "en"]
    | otherwise         = prepend base ["o", "as", "a", "amos", "ais", "an"]
    where
        untilSuffix         = length verb - 2
        base                = take untilSuffix verb
        suffix              = drop untilSuffix verb
        prepend word words  = map ((++) word) words

Alvaro Montoro • Nov 12 '20

In JavaScript:

const conjugate = verb => {
  switch(verb.slice(-2)) {
    case "ar": return ["o","as","a","amos","ais","an"].map(el => verb.slice(0, verb.length-2) + el);
    case "er": return ["o","es","e","emos","eis","en"].map(el => verb.slice(0, verb.length-2) + el);
    case "ir": return ["o","es","e","imos","is","en"].map(el => verb.slice(0, verb.length-2) + el);
  };
}

Amin • Nov 19 '20 • Edited

CoffeeScript

conjugate = (verb) ->
  base    = verb[...-2]
  prepend = (words) -> "#{base}#{suffix}" for suffix in words

  switch verb[-2..]
    when "ir"
      prepend ["o", "es", "e", "imos", "ís", "en"]

    when "ar"
      prepend ["o", "as", "a", "amos", "áis", "an"]

    else
      prepend ["o", "es", "e", "emos", "éis", "en"]

Eduardo Zepeda • Nov 12 '20

As a spanish native this is the first time I see a spanish conjugator, I've encountered countless plural/singular converters but nothing similar to this, awesome!