nouns

List of German Nouns

About

This dataset provides a list of German nouns with their nominative singular and plural forms.

The list is derived from the German Wiktionary using a triple store data dump provided by the Dbnary project.

Data files

• release/de-nouns-dump.txt - list of German nouns.

  Format: <singular>,<plural>

  Note that a given noun need not have both a singular and a plural form.

• release/de-nouns.txt - list of German nouns after removing nouns that are maintained on the input/de-nouns-del.txt exclusion list.

  Background: the list of German nouns has been created with an application in mind that finds a canonical word form (usually the nominative singular form) in the list. This can sometimes not be done easily as the same word form can be the plural form of one singular-plural pair and at the same time be the singular form of the other.

  For example, Feste can be the plural of Fest (celebration). But it can also be the singular in the singular/plural pair Feste/Festen, meaning fortress so that looking up Feste in the word list brings up more than one item and makes deciding upon the canonical form difficult. In this specific case, the pair Feste/Festen is hardly used in current day German and we can simply remove it from the list by putting it on the de-nouns-del.txt exclusion list.

Building the data files

Follow these steps to build the data files yourself:

1. Clone or download this project
2. Download the triple store files de_dbnary_ontolex.ttl and de_dbnary_morphology.ttl from Dbnary http://kaiko.getalp.org/static/ontolex/latest/ and unzip them into input/dbnary.
3. cd scripts
4. Install required Python libraries via pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Run python build.py - This might run for ca. 60 mins. You will find the generated files in the release folder.

Contributing to the exclusion list

Just provide a pull request for file input/de-nouns-del.txt. Please make sure you keep the entries in alphabetical order and also provide an explanation why you want to modify the list.

License

The List of German Nouns is derived from files provided by the Dbnary project, which in turn are derived from the German Wiktionary. The List of German Nouns dataset is made available by the maintainers of the Querqy Datasets project under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

The tools for creating and maintaining this dataset are made available by the maintainers of the Querqy Datasets project under the Apache License, Version 2 (see https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)