Pig Latin confusion

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I don’t fully understand the third case, in which the first vowel comes in the end of the string.

translatePigLatin("glove") //should return "oveglay".

It’s confusing because it’s not returning the string backwards as I first thought. What exactly am I supposed to do if the case is true?

What it seems to be doing is removing each letter (from the start of the string) that isn’t a vowel until it finds one, in this case it removes “g” and “l” then finds “o” (a vowel). After that it takes those letters and add them to the end of the string along with the word “ay”

Am I correct here?, the challenge doesn’t mention any of that though and with my current code I’m failing the last case, not sure why.

Your code so far


function translatePigLatin(str) {
  const vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"]
  for (let i = 0; i < vowels.length; i++) {
  	if(str.startsWith(vowels[i])) {
    	return str + "way"
    } else if (str.endsWith(vowels[i])) {
    	return str
    }
  }

 const arr = str.split("")
 const firstLetter = arr.shift();
 arr.push(firstLetter + "ay")
 return arr.join("")
}

translatePigLatin("consonant");

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Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/intermediate-algorithm-scripting/pig-latin

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Pig Latin takes the first consonant (or consonant cluster) of an English word, moves it to the end of the word and suffixes an “ay”.

3

Does that mean I need an array with the list of all these “consonant cluster”?

I suck when it comes to these grammar terms so I totally ignored that part :sweat_smile:

4

consonant cluster = many consonants (not ‘aeiou’) stuck together (i.e. ‘gl’, ‘str’).

And how do you imagine creating “an array with the list of all these “consonant cluster””?

5

But ‘ca’ is not a consonant cluster and it’s still treating it as if it were one in the first case (california), why?

6

translatePigLatin("california") should return “aliforniacay”.

Pig Latin takes the first consonant (or consonant cluster) of an English word,

c-alifornia

moves it to the end of the word

alifornia-c

and suffixes an “ay”.

alifornia-c-ay

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Oh I see, this post just made realize that I’m really bad with grammar terms. Thanks.

As for the list of consonant cluster, I saw a list and there are about 32 in the English language. Not sure if that would be the best way to solve this challenge but it’s the first thing that comes to my mind, I need way to check if the string starts with a consonant cluster (i.e., gl, bl, etc)

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Yeah I’m trying to figure out another approach, having to type the entire list of consonant cluster into an array does not seem very good.