Getting into Java: French Verb Conjugation Program

That concept of a datastore that you described is what I was going for with a text document for irregular verbs. The end goal of this program is to provide practice for people who know the verbs to an extent, so it should not be unreasonable to expect that people will add verbs to the 'irregular list'. (saves me the trouble of adding EVERY French verb to the list) Editing a text file to add a verb and its conjugations is something most people can do. On the other hand though, making a second program / option to add to a datastore that is saved in a more complex, harder-to-break format might be easier for users who use computers for nothing more than email.

Extrapolating your example, it would look something like this?

Code:

etre
[present]
je=suis
tu=es
il=est
nous=sommes
vous=etes
ils=sont
[imperfect]
je=etais
...
ils=etaient

aller
[present]
je=vais
...
ils=vont

etre is irregular in both present and imperfect, but aller is irregular in the present and not imperfect.

Can datastores be text files or do they have to be more complex? I'm Googling around to find out more on datastores, and I see jargon galore.