Question
You are given a string sentence
that consist of words separated by spaces. Each word consists of lowercase and uppercase letters only.
We would like to convert the sentence to “Goat Latin” (a made-up language similar to Pig Latin.) The rules of Goat Latin are as follows:
- If a word begins with a vowel (
'a'
,'e'
,'i'
,'o'
, or'u'
), append"ma"
to the end of the word.- For example, the word
"apple"
becomes"applema"
.
- For example, the word
- If a word begins with a consonant (i.e., not a vowel), remove the first letter and append it to the end, then add
"ma"
.- For example, the word
"goat"
becomes"oatgma"
.
- For example, the word
- Add one letter
'a'
to the end of each word per its word index in the sentence, starting with1
.- For example, the first word gets
"a"
added to the end, the second word gets"aa"
added to the end, and so on.
- For example, the first word gets
Return the final sentence representing the conversion from sentence to Goat Latin.
Example 1:
Input: sentence = "I speak Goat Latin" Output: "Imaa peaksmaaa oatGmaaaa atinLmaaaaa"
Example 2:
Input: sentence = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" Output: "heTmaa uickqmaaa rownbmaaaa oxfmaaaaa umpedjmaaaaaa overmaaaaaaa hetmaaaaaaaa azylmaaaaaaaaa ogdmaaaaaaaaaa"
Constraints:
1 <= sentence.length <= 150
sentence
consists of English letters and spaces.sentence
has no leading or trailing spaces.- All the words in
sentence
are separated by a single space.
Python Solution
class Solution: def toGoatLatin(self, S: str) -> str: S = S.split() r=[] vowels='aeiouAEIOU' for i in range(len(S)): if S[i][0] in vowels: r.append(S[i] + 'ma' + ('a'*(i+1))) elif S[i]==' ': r+=' ' else: r.append(S[i][1:] + S[i][0] + 'ma' + ('a'*(i+1))) return ' '.join(r)