# phpman > perldoc > Text::German

## NAME
    [Text::German](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Text%3A%3AGerman/markdown) - German grundform reduction

## SYNOPSYS
    "use [Text::German](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Text%3A%3AGerman/markdown);"

    "$stem = [Text::German::reduce](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Text%3A%3AGerman%3A%3Areduce/markdown)($word)"

## DESCRIPTION
    This is a rather incomplete implementaion of work done by Gudrun Putze-Meier. I have to confess
    that I never read her original paper. So all credit belongs to her, all bugs are mine. I tried
    to get some insight from an implementation of two students of mine. They remain anonymous
    because their work was the wost piece of code I ever saw. My code behaves mostly as their
    implementation did except it is about 75 times faster.

## AUTHOR
    Ulrich Pfeifer <<pfeifer@wait.de>>

## COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 1996 Ulrich Pfeifer. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
    redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

## CHANGES
    0.5: Fixed copyright statement