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English - Tamil Machine Aided Translation System

The system does translation from English to Tamil. This is a preliminary version of the system and handles simple sentences. When you have typed your sentence in English, press enter or click "Translate text", the system will give you the translation in Tamil (Tamil Script).

The system works for limited vocabulary and grammar. The list of Vocabulary is given below.

Noun Class
I, me, my, you, she, her, he, him, his, it, they, them, our, us,
boy, girl, raman, minister, dog,
big, idiot, good, beautiful (adj, adv), need, very, the, that, these, an,
pen, letter, message, examination,  house, temple,
sleeping, crying, written,
field, tree, flowers
film, actress, actor.


Verb Class
is, was, been, being, am, are, were, will, have, has, had,
write, writes, wrote, written, writing,
walk, walks, walked, walking,
sleep, sleeps, sleeping, slept,
go, goes, went, gone, going,
kill, kills, killing, killed,
love, loved, loves,
give, gave,
saw, said, helped.

You can make simple sentences using these constituents and test the system.