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What is the best Hunspell dictionary for French?
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2nl (X)
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Netherlands
Local time: 20:41
Oct 6, 2014

What would be the best Hunspell dictionary for French that contains all forms of frequent verbs?

Hunspell does not include all the tenses of many French verbs. "aller" or "vais" may be there, but "iraient" or "irions" may not. Seems that the tenses have not all been added systematically. So it is rather a problem of quite ordinary words missing in Hunspell.

For Dutch we have an official governmental organisation that has sponsored development of the Dutch Hunspell dict... See more
What would be the best Hunspell dictionary for French that contains all forms of frequent verbs?

Hunspell does not include all the tenses of many French verbs. "aller" or "vais" may be there, but "iraient" or "irions" may not. Seems that the tenses have not all been added systematically. So it is rather a problem of quite ordinary words missing in Hunspell.

For Dutch we have an official governmental organisation that has sponsored development of the Dutch Hunspell dictionary and has certified it. Does something like this exist for French? ▲ Collapse
 
TB CommuniCAT
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Canada
Local time: 14:41
English to French
Antidote Oct 6, 2014

Hi,

You can try Antidote. Here is the link if you are interested:

http://www.antidote.info/
 
Caroline Lam
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Luxembourg
Local time: 20:41
French
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Bescherelle Oct 6, 2014

I would recommend this one: http://www.bescherelle.com/.
 
John Holland
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France
Local time: 20:41
French to English
Hunspell on Ubuntu and Debian Oct 6, 2014

This is what Ubuntu uses:
http://www.dicollecte.org/home.php?prj=fr

On my system, both verb conjugations you mentioned are recognized.
 


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