Category talk:German noun forms
RFM discussion: December 2013
The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for moves, mergers and splits.
This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.
German nouns inflect for case, so a "plural" is often only the plural of some of the cases, not all of them. I think our practice for categories called "plurals" is to have them only if the language has no other noun forms, and to use "noun forms" otherwise. —CodeCat 13:54, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
- Still, it's common practice in German (and other languages probably as well) to refer to the nominative plural form as "the plural". So if someone asks you to give the plural of the lexeme Haus, the expected answer would be Häuser (which is the nominative plural, and happens to be the accusative and genitive plural, too), not Häusern (the dative plural). I don't know if that's relevant for the issue discussed here, though. Longtrend (talk) 21:21, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
- Is that a reason not to merge? Mglovesfun (talk) 21:22, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
- I'm not sure. That's what I tried to say with my last sentence. Longtrend (talk) 16:27, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- Is that a reason not to merge? Mglovesfun (talk) 21:22, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
- Yep, that's true. Doesn't the accelerated script use the plurals category? If so, it should be fixed first. -- Liliana • 21:44, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
Same as above. —CodeCat 13:55, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Same as above. —CodeCat 13:56, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Same as above. —CodeCat 14:03, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Same as above. —CodeCat 14:08, 15 December 2013 (UTC)