2. Morphology, syntax (a) In German, the ending of a regular verb in present tense is normally t for third person singular, unless the stem ends on t or d, in which case the ending is et. Examples...

Extracted text: 2. Morphology, syntax (a) In German, the ending of a regular verb in present tense is normally t for third person singular, unless the stem ends on t or d, in which case the ending is et. Examples are: stem 3rd sing. lern lernt arbeit arbeitet red redet Draw a finite-state transducer that maps a stem to this verb form. To be precise, the input is the stem of a regular verb followed by the symbol #, and the output is the third person singular present tense form of that stem, without the final #. As transition label you can use the abbreviation other, which is short for a:a, b:b, c:C, e:e, ..., that is, a mapping from any letter (other than t or d) to that same •.•/