Talk:bijwerkinkje

RFV discussion: December 2014–April 2015
— Ungoliant (falai) 15:35, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit rusty on Dutch, but I think it's attestable. Unfortunately Dutch Wiktionary doesn't list the diminutive. Diminutives do not always follow the ending of the parent noun. This is something DrJos can answer, I imagine. Donnanz (talk) 19:53, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Pinging User:DrJos: is this (rather than, say, bijwerkingje) the correct diminutive of bijwerking? I do see one citation on Google Books:
 * 2010, Mike Boddé, Pil: hoe een cabaretier zijn depressie overwon:
 * Eerst geloofde ik het niet; het zal wel een bijwerkinkje zijn van de pillen of zo, dacht ik.
 * - -sche (discuss) 22:09, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

The rule is that if there is a stressed syllable before the syllable with the "-ing" suffix, the last -g- turns into "-kje" to make it a diminutive. If the stress is earlier in the word -g- becomes -etje. So "bijwerking" becomes "bijwerkinkje" --DrJos (talk) 23:03, 22 February 2015 (UTC)


 * The question is now whether one citation is sufficient to attest this (which those who view diminutives as inflected forms have argued), or whether the diminutive needs 3 citations. - -sche (discuss) 01:35, 6 April 2015 (UTC)