Module talk:be-noun

Live
This module is live now. Could you help fix the resulting module errors? They are caused by missing stresses, multi-stressed forms or missing forms. Benwing2 (talk) 05:16, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, thank you. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:19, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I have fixed all Belarusian entries (generating errors only) but I don't know what to do with . --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 07:49, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

alt gen pl
You mention genitive plurals of feminines (also neuters) in -аў/-яў. I am working on automating Belarusian nouns and I'm planning on adding a flag to indicate this type of genitive plural, probably  attached to the accent pattern, similarly to the reducible indicator. So might be indicated as  or similar. Benwing2 (talk) 04:14, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Whenever I find these cases every now and again, I add them to the declension. Such cases may also be included in slounik.org as well. Another case is пусты́ня. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 06:53, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Pls note that this also happens with some neuter nouns, e.g. крэ́сла->крэ́слаў (also in slounik). --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 07:31, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I looked into this and the majority of neuter nouns actually have genitive plural in -аў or -яў, so this will be the default. Benwing2 (talk) 01:14, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, as long as you cover cases like дрэў/дрэваў.
 * I sometimes can't tell with 100% certainty if a form is standard, even if it seems attestable or common. E.g. I can find examples of "сініцаў" (сініца) and there will be many other alt fem. gen. pl forms, so I am not sure, if they all should be included. Slounik mostly provides the latest standardised forms. More research is required. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 01:28, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yup, those cases will be handled. As for feminines in -аў, I read somewhere (I think on Wikipedia) that feminines in -аў are more characteristic of Taraškievica and those with a null ending are more characteristic of the current Russianized norm. Benwing2 (talk) 03:35, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's about right, which makes it difficult to determine, which parts of Taraškievica inflections can be included in the declension tables. For example, I have manually collected inflected forms of . Gen. pl: "мест, място́ў" but loc. sg. "ме́сьце" would definitely apply only to Taraškievica, with modern form being "ме́сце". So I only included "ме́сце". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 04:20, 21 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I think it would be great to embrace and provide for Taraškievica as well eventually. I just searched for "надзеяў" (надзея) and found a few links going https://www.svaboda.org/, which is a good read now that all Belarusian media is controlled by Lukashenka and all "standard" Belarusian texts ar efull of propaganda. I think it would be safe to add -аў/-яў as alt feminine forms to all feminine nouns ending in -а/-я for now. Belarusians seem to mix old and new grammars. It won't hurt to have both надзе́й and надзе́яў. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:52, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. If I add those forms to all feminine nouns in -а/-я, maybe I should footnote them as Taraškievica norm unless the template call specifically requests these forms using . Otherwise you'll get a random mixture of different norms, which isn't so good. What do you think? Benwing2 (talk) 05:59, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * There is not always a clear border between standard and Taraškievica. In case of, gen. pl "на́зваў" is the only way, perhaps because of the consonant cluster, you'll find many other similar cases. Dative and locative sg. "на́зьве" is a more clear Taraškievica case. Different sources in slounik may give one or the other or both inflections. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 06:10, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * What I mean is, there will be a way in the module of adding -аў as a feminine ending (probably the ), either by itself or as an alternative. We can do this when Slounik, esp. Граматычны назоўніка 2013, lists -аў as an ending, either as the only possibility or as an alternative. If not given in Граматычны назоўніка 2013, the module can still add it, but footnoted as Taraškievica, to make it clear it's less likely to be used by the "standard" norm. Benwing2 (talk) 06:16, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That would be fine, thanks. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 06:19, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

count forms
(moved from Talk:востраў) It's the second time I noticed that the count form is different from the usual. Typically, nouns with numbers 2, 3, 4 (22, 23, 24, etc.) are similar to Russian or Ukrainian (but "тры дні" (three days) = uk: "три дні" but <> ru" "три дня").

In this case, however, doesn't even appear in the declension table. Slounik sometimes shows this grammatical feature. I added usage notes to another BE entry as well but I forgot what it was :(. Not sure what to do about this yet, just FYI. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 03:00, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've noticed this. Ukrainian also has count forms. The rule for Ukrainian seems to be that you take the nominative plural and stress it according to the stress of the genitive singular. Sometimes this produces forms that aren't found in the declension tables. In Belarusian it's more complex because of vowel alternations and such, but the same idea seems to apply. Here it seems like you take the entire genitive singular, chop off the ending, and add the ending of the nominative plural. Maybe the same thing actually happens in Ukrainian, too; you could determine this by taking a word like друг (which has a different singular vs. plural stem) and looking it up in mova.info, which lists count forms. Unfortunately the site is currently down so I can't verify this. Also, I'm not sure if the count forms apply only to masculines (like in Bulgarian) or to all nouns -- do you know? My plan is to include the count forms in the declension tables once I finish automating Belarusian noun declensions, since they can be generated in a systematic fashion. Benwing2 (talk) 03:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's not just masculines. Slounik has an example of a count form for пятля́ (feminine). Benwing2 (talk) 04:37, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Also for чало́ (neuter). Benwing2 (talk) 04:48, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I added support for count forms using count. See во́страў for an example. Benwing2 (talk) 05:04, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Adding "з ліч. 2, 3, 4" in the search box in slounik brings back a lot of results. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:36, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding the count form into the table. I think it would be appropriate to add a footnote that these forms are to be used with numbers 2, 3, 4 (22, 23, 24, etc.). It's not like the Bulgarian count forms. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 23:53, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

personal nouns, animal nouns
[moved from Talk:цэсар]

Note the locative in -у with a noun referring to a person. We've seen this with nouns ending in -ц, maybe it applies to all the always-hard endings (ш ж ч as well)? 06:26, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes, "тхор"'s (ferret) locative is "тхары́" but is animate otherwise.
 * слухач ->слухачу́ (listener, person), вуж -> вужы́ (grass snake, animal), нож->нажы́ (knife, object). (your signature was stuffed)--Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 06:49, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


 * is another example of person vs animal difference. "drone" sense loc. sg. "тру́тні", "sluggard" sense loc. sg. "тру́тню". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 07:46, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The same thing happens with nouns in -й, e.g. яўрэ́й "Jew" (loc sg. яўрэ́ю) vs. папуга́й "parrot" (loc sg. папуга́і) vs. гай "grove" (loc sg. га́і). Benwing2 (talk) 08:33, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I've decided to require 'pr' vs. 'anml' in, as it's needed in many masculine nouns; by requiring it to be specified, we reduce the chance of error vs. requiring that people specify an override of the locative singular for people or animals (depending on which one is chosen as the default). Do you think we should introduce this distinction in headwords as well, or should we just have 'an' as we do currently? Benwing2 (talk) 03:42, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's OK to model everything on the Ukrainian nouns for animacy, IMO.
 * IMO, it would be great if Polish labels converted to categories as well, ideally consistent in all three languages. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 04:10, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

declensions for proper nouns
I assume almost all remaining proper nouns without declensions have standard declensions (stress pattern a, no special indicator codes required). Is that true? Can you look over the nouns in Category:Requests for inflections in Belarusian noun entries and let me know if any of them require special handling? For the ones that don't, I can fairly quickly add declensions to all of them using a script. Benwing2 (talk) 01:10, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I am glad you asked. These are time-consuming but quite repetitive tasks. Эўрапе́йскі Зьвяз (see "звяз") is "genu" but otherwise, they all (proper nouns) seem straightforward. Perhaps, need to be cautious with terms requiring "sg" (Вікіпэ́дыя, Ўэльс, Пенсільванія, Руская зямля, Эўрапейскі Зьвяз), etc but you know this. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 01:22, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Don't forget about new cases, pls - Ілья́ (per Talk:Ілья) and Хрысто́с (I have made it manual - irreg), which will help handling Ісу́с Хрысто́с (voc: Ісу́се Хры́сце). --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 01:26, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I can see Хрысто́с and Ісу́с Хрысто́с have already been taken care of :) --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 01:28, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi. I'm working on this now but I realize there are some cases where accents are needed. Could you fix them up if possible? See Category:Requests for accents in Belarusian proper noun entries. Thanks! Benwing2 (talk) 02:13, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Only accents will do? Are you able to add on accented terms as well, at least single-word? --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 02:18, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, just the accents are enough. I can add after adding the declensions. Benwing2 (talk) 02:26, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've done Эўрапейскі Зьвяз, pls exclude from the bot run. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 02:34, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Should be all done. Benwing2 (talk) 03:24, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Still need to add ; will do that soon. Benwing2 (talk) 03:24, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

irregular count forms
Under what circumstances is the count form irregular as след -> сле́да (not сле́ды) or мур -> муры́ (not му́ры)? If there is a rule for it, I'd rather put it in the module instead of adding overrides everywhere. Also please add overrides using the indicator  (or  ) to add an override in -а, or    (or  ) to add an override in -ы́. Benwing2 (talk) 23:45, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I am not familiar with these exceptions and couldn't find any evidence either. "тры следы" has a slightly more hits than "тры следа", no Taraškievica hits with "сьл-". Slounik.org has an example "баранава́ньне ў два сьляды́" (Taraškievica) but this is different from both "сле́да" and "сле́ды". Can @Jarash perhaps provide some examples from literature or references? --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 00:09, 29 August 2022 (UTC)