Bar Ilan Software Support - Introduction to Grammatical Variants

   

 

 

If you specify a particular word or phrase without specifying grammatical variants, you will locate only exact occurrences of that word or phrase. For example, searching for משה will not locate ומשה, and searching for הלל או will not locate הלל אומר (by contrast, such forms presumably would be located if you were using the search option of a word processor). Accordingly, it’s generally advisable to specify grammatical variants in your search requests.

    Bar Ilan Responsa lets you specify grammatical variants in two ways (in Regular and Advanced searches; only very simple variants can be specified in Simple searches):

•    In Regular searches, click the word for which you want to specify variants, and then click the button specifying the appropriate variant (prefixes, suffixes, etc.).
•    In Advanced searches, double-click the word for which you want to specify variants, and then click the button specifying the appropriate variant (prefixes, suffixes, etc.). Or type the relevant symbols immediately before or after the word for which you want to specify variants.
  In the Bar Ilan Responsa Project, if you inadvertently specified grammatical variants for a word, double-click the word, and then click Single Form. This will remove the grammatical variant symbols, so that only the exact form you specified will be retrieved. Alternatively, click Clear and reformulate your query.

•    Note that you can often specify more than one option per word. For example, you can search for all forms of a word with grammatical prefixes and all suffixes by typing the appropriate symbols before and after the word or by clicking the appropriate buttons; see below for further details.

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