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Prioritizing

The more frequently a morph occurs in a language, the more useful it is to learn. This is the fundamental principle behind AnkiMorphs--learn a language in the order that will be the most useful.

AnkiMorphs is a general purpose language learning tool, therefore, it has to be told which morphs occur most often. You can do this in two ways, either have AnkiMorphs calculate the morph frequencies found in your cards (Collection frequency), or you can specify a custom .csv file that contains that information.

Any .csv file located in the folder [anki profile folder]/priority-files/ is available for selection in note filters: morph priority.

But before we outline the custom priority files, we have to discuss morph lemmas and inflections.

Lemmas or Inflections?

There are scenarios where you might not want to give each individual inflection a separate priority:

  • Chinese technically does not have inflections, so any inflection data is artificial and leads to a wasteful use of resources.

  • Korean has an extreme number of inflections, leading to an explosion of priorities, which creates disproportionate penalties.

  • You might feel that you have a good enough grasp of the grammar of inflections, making it unnecessary to prioritize one over another.

If you never want to give separate priorities to inflections then you should choose a lemma only priority file. If you do care about inflection priorities, or if you might want to switch to lemma priorities on the fly, then choose an inflection priority file.

Custom Priority Files

You can use the Priority File Generator or the Study Plan Generator to create your own custom priority file, or you can download some pre-made ones at the bottom of this page.

Note:

  • The Occurrences column is optional
  • Any lines after 1 million will be ignored by AnkiMorphs

Custom Lemma Priority Files

frequency-csv-lemma.png

The lemma only priority files follows this format:

  • The first row contains column headers.
  • The second row and down contain morph lemmas in descending order of frequency.

Custom Inflection Priority Files

frequency-csv-lemma.png

The inflection priority files follows this format:

  • The first row contains column headers.
  • The second row and down contain morphs in descending order of inflection frequency.
  • The first column contains morph-lemmas, the second column contains morph-inflections (this is done to prevent morph collisions).
  • The third column contains lemma priorities, the fourth column contains inflection priorities (this is done to so you can switch morph evaluation on the fly).

Morph Collision

Inflected morphs can be identical even if they are derived from different lemmas (base), e.g.:

Lemma : Inflection
有る    ある
或る    ある

To prevent misinterpretation of the inflected morphs, we also store the lemmas.

Downloadable Priority Files

Unless stated otherwise, these are inflection priority files, generated using a 90% comprehension cutoff.

Cantonese

Note: This is a lemma only priority file that was not generated using AnkiMorphs, so it might not work very well (or at all).

Catalan
Chinese

Note: this is a lemma only priority file.

Croatian
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek (Modern)
Italian
Japanese
Korean

Note: this is a lemma only priority file.

Lithuanian
Macedonian
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Ukrainian