Why would you need to know whether a vowel is stressed or not? It only depends on the length of the vowel. All vowels other than "e" at the end of a word are either long, accented, or part of a diphthong ("tweeklank"). A long "e" is always written as "ee" at the end of a word, so "e" is always either short, or accented, or part of a diphthong, and never needs an apostrophe.

Something like this (untested!) 

if ($name =~ /[^aeiou][aiouy]$/) {
   $possessive = $name . "'s";
} elsif ($name =~ /(s|z|x|sj|sch)$/) {
   $possessive = $name . "'";
} else }
   $possessive = $name . "s";
}

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should work for all Dutch (native) names. You can't do thing correctly for foreign names (such as Dutroux), as they are not spelled according to Dutch rules.

In reply to Re: Possessive forms in Dutch. by pijll
in thread Possessive forms in Dutch. by BioGeek

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