Talk:tabu

RFV discussion: December 2018
1. for the attributiv positiv forms, 2. for the superlativ, 3. for the comparativ (also compare: "The declined forms are virtually nonexistent"). --Berliner 586 (talk) 16:12, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Inflected forms don't need citations. 2602:252:D2B:3AA0:481C:6D09:5353:57AA 16:14, 8 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Then how should we handle the case when someone modifies the headword line for the adverb from “not (not comparable)” to “not (comparative notter, superlative nottest)”, claiming that these forms, although rare, do exist? Or when someone claims that the plural of  is ? Shouldn’t we ask for some evidence?  --Lambiam 10:11, 9 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Of course we should ask for some evidence and the IP is wrong. While it's often not necessary (and even not possible) to attest all inflected forms, it can be necessary to attest the way of inflection. -11:12, 9 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Right. If there's reason to think a word doesn't inflect or (in the case of e.g. Latin) inflects only in one declension pattern (set of endings) and not another, one can ask for verification. "Inflected forms don't need citations" is for if e.g. the masculine singular dative mixed declension form of mitternachtsblau is found to have only two — or even zero — Google Books hits, but enough other inflected forms are attested to confirm that mitternachtsblau does indeed inflect: in that case it's not like we're going to create a one-off inflection table for use in mitternachtsblau that has a gap in that one slot, or redefine mitternachtsblauen to say "masculine singular strong genitive and accusative, weak genitive, dative and accusative, and mixed genitive and accusative but not dative, and feminine weak genitive and dative, and mixed...". In this case, it seems like the word doesn't inflect, at least not often enough to include (I found only one citation of tabuer, Citations:tabu). - -sche (discuss) 00:24, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and removed the declension table, so no wayward bot would create the "missing" forms, as they do indeed seem unattested (though we could certainly leave this open for the full month). - -sche (discuss) 00:50, 19 December 2018 (UTC)