Currently the template accepts a whole list of mostly overlapping parameters. For example, you can specify the plural form using either {{{1}}}, {{{pl}}} or {{{pl1}}}. And similarly for the diminutives and diminutive plurals. Wouldn't it make more sense, in simplifying not only the coding in the template, but also the usage, to have just one way to specify each of these? {{{1}}} for the plural, {{{pl2}}} for the second plural, {{{2}}} for the diminutive, {{{dim2}}} for the second diminutive, and so on? --CodeCat 19:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi guys, I have noticed that when you specify * for the plural parameter, it ignores the diminutive parameter as well, which is strange because not having a plural is not equivalent to not having a diminutive. What I want to see is when you also specify a dim parameter (either named or unnamed), it should be displayed regardless of the value in the plural parameter. However, since there is no plural, the diminutive should not have a plural either. In addition, in the quickguide, it states that {{nl-noun|-|ijsje}} will result in the text no plural and the diminutive. This is not true. It outputs the above + the dim plural. I will be looking at this issue in the next few days. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 23:28, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
As one of the (millions of) native Dutch speakers with a two-gender noun system (we strictly distinguish the neuter gender, but we very rarely distinguish between masculine and feminine), how can I indicate that a word is not neutral, when I don't know whether it's masculine or feminine? Rp2 17:11, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
It seems to me that using * as the parameter is being misused a lot to simply forego specifying a form. This template is the only one I've seen it used on, and I think it would be better off being removed. So I propose making it so that * and - is the same for diminutives: nothing is shown at all. For plurals it is trickier, because - indicates an uncountable noun but * might not. So I think maybe we could add a category to the template whenever * is used, so we can clean them up easily. Thoughts? —CodeCat 20:05, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
I think diminutive plurals should be mentioned on the page of the diminutive, not on the page of the lemma form. That would mean we can remove a whole part of the code. Objections? H. (talk) 16:36, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
You can't use g=g for no gender; it categorizes in Category:nouns lacking gender (no mention of Dutch). --Mglovesfun (talk) 20:14, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
What about a noun like kleren, which is a plural, m and f, and also has singular and plural diminutives? —Stephen (Talk) 00:14, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to add more than one feminine form? I tried to add an extra feminine form of Fransman to the template on that particular page, but I fail to figure out how this is done. Is there a way to do this? And if not, there should be. Both Franse and Française are feminine forms of Fransman. Caudex Rax (talk) 11:54, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
I dont speak Dutch so I dont know, but do ALL Dutch nouns have diminutive forms? e.g. take a word like aansprakelijkheidsverzekering or ontwikkelingsvoorsprong, are people really going to say " aansprakelijkheidsverzekeringetjes" etc for the diminutive? I was going to edit it to take out the diminutive but I wanted to see if anyone would respone to me here first, as there doesnt seem to be a way to do it without causing an error message. Soap (talk) 04:47, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
I was wondering if a tracking category for Dutch nouns with irregular plurals would be useful; like for dokter's plural doktoren. Those can probably be detected when the plurals are not generated by using the dash notation. That might result in a high degree of false positives due to unnecessary entry of the full plurals. It might make sense to systematically find and replace those, since those nouns don't get added to any tracking categories at all.
Checking this out I also realized that the category Category:Dutch nouns with multiple plurals does not seem to be working correctly, since it's empty? --Azertus (talk) 14:14, 3 November 2016 (UTC)