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Plural forms with parsetree and search in Dutch

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Description

I am using parsetree(text, lemmata=True) (pattern.nl) and search(searchterm, text) for Dutch.
Like: search: "baan" in "Het aantal banen in Noord-Holland neemt toe."
This has the advantage of constructing a lemma and also searching for a plural form of the search term. But not in all cases. "Stad" as a search term also searches for "steden". But "baan" does not search for "banen", "arbeider" does not search for "arbeiders".
Is there a logic to this? The pluralize function gives the correct plural forms.

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Start with the parsetree() and search() entry points for Dutch, then compare their handling of "baan", "stad", and "arbeider" with the pluralize() results described in the issue. Reproduce the examples and determine whether search should match the plural forms consistently; done means the intended Dutch plural-search behavior is covered by verification.

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Tech stack
python
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localization
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Bug
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