When a match is found, on the other hand, among the set for a vowel verb, the stem of the vowel verb is computed to be a combination of both the preprocessed string and the initial onehiragana or syllable equivalent portion of the matched string 5 .
the stem of the vowel verb is a combination of the preprocessed string and the first one hiragana character consisting of a consonant followed by "e" or "i" or the first one hiragana character representing one of the two vowels /e/ or /i/.