Coniuno - the Conjugation Trainer

The idea behind Coniuno

The program’s aim is to understand verb-conjugations as such and to strengthen the feeling and comprehension for the respective training-language. The aim is not to learn the same verbs by heart on and on. Even if one knows these verbs very perfect soon, still the use and conjugation of new, not trained verbs is a great problem. By training conjugations without being bound to certain selected verbs, the quick recognition of verb-forms and the automatically correct usage of the conjugations are improved.

Therefore the idea behind Coniuno is to practice the possible conjugations of free selectable verbs in random order. These can be regular, irregular, reflexive and/or passive verbs.
A great number of options allow you to set-up the program according to your training-wishes and needs. If for example you want to train a new conjugation form (e.g. the past perfect in English or the passato remoto in Italian), then you limit a training to exactly these time-forms. Coniuno will practice these time-forms with you until you can easily conjugate even brand new verbs without any problems. Or maybe you get confused by a language’s plural II and plural III forms. Coniuno will only train plural II and plural III with you. Or maybe you just want to practice verb conjugations from randomly selected verbs and randomly selected time-forms to improve your general confidence in conjugating verbs. Coniuno helps you with this.

Versions

Coniuno is available as Freeware- and Professional version.

The Freeware-version is free of costs and supports the following functions:

• Training of verb-conjugations in all supported languages
• Conjugation of arbitrary verbs in all supported languages
• Use of own verbsets as well as use of own verb files (use of own verbs)
• Multiple Choice test
• Search for infinitive forms
• Use of all program-options (e.g. only singular II or selection of tenses)
• Statistics
• Help functions

The Professional-version must be purchased and supports the following additional functions:

• Support of all functions from the Freeware version
• Display of the conjugation scheme (explanation of how to conjugate the current verb)
• Usage of the Coniuno verb tables.
  Coniuno verb tables are available as Windows Help files and contain all conjugation rules and irregular verbs that are used by Coniuno to conjugate verbs. Coniuno synchronises a training with the verb table, which provides you the verb table like a book, always opened on the right page.
  One verb table of your choice is included in the professional version's scope of delivery. Further verb tables can be purchased in addition.
• Printing of verbs and verb conjugations

Further details

Coniuno is able to conjugate all verbs by itself. For this purpose the program uses the conjugation rules for regular verbs (e.g. ich geh+e, du geh+st, er geh+t etc.), as well as a variety of additional rules to recognize and conjugate irregular verbs. If there should be an irregular verb that is not conjugated correctly, then a broad set of options allow to teach the verb to Coniuno and by that conjugate it correctly again.

As a first function the program provides you with conjugation-tables for all languages. Here you can enter any verb (e.g. shave, shave the beard, wash oneself etc.) and you will receive the regular and irregular conjugations of all time-forms.

The actual real function however is the training of any time-form of any verb from one language to another language. For this reason the program uses one language as "mother-language", e.g. English and another language as "training-language", e.g. French. The result from this is that Coniuno will always ask you for verb-forms from English to French. Or from Spanish to Italian. Or from Latin to German. Or and so on. To be able to ask for all this forms, Coniuno first conjugates the verb in the mother-language and afterwards in the training-language.

Other functions (to just list some) are a multiple-choice test, an interactive conjugation-help, there is a search-function for irregular verbs, import- and export-routines support the exchange of training-verbs with friends, statistic-functions help to plan future trainings and not to be mentioned last, there is an extensive help.

I hope that you like Coniuno!
Helmut Bischoff