# German special characters are replaced:
häufig	haufig

# here the stemmer works okay, it maps related words to the same stem:
abschließen	abschliess
abschließender	abschliess
abschließendes	abschliess
abschließenden	abschliess

Tisch	tisch
Tische	tisch
Tischen	tisch

Haus	hau
Hauses	hau
Häuser	hau
Häusern	hau
# here's a case where overstemming occurs, i.e. a word is 
# mapped to the same stem as unrelated words:
hauen	hau

# here's a case where understemming occurs, i.e. two related words
# are not mapped to the same stem. This is the case with basically
# all irregular forms:
Drama	drama
Dramen	dram

# replace "ß" with 'ss':
Ausmaß	ausmass

# fake words to test if suffixes are cut off:
xxxxxe	xxxxx
xxxxxs	xxxxx
xxxxxn	xxxxx
xxxxxt	xxxxx
xxxxxem	xxxxx
xxxxxer	xxxxx
xxxxxnd	xxxxx
# the suffixes are also removed when combined:
xxxxxetende	xxxxx

# words that are shorter than four charcters are not changed:
xxe	xxe
# -em and -er are not removed from words shorter than five characters:
xxem	xxem
xxer	xxer
# -nd is not removed from words shorter than six characters:
xxxnd	xxxnd