Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Afrikaans/reply (3)

That isn't as easy as it seems, and the Dutch templates don't do that either. Instead, they just take another parameter pref= for this purpose. The problem is not that the prefix can't be removed, but that it might be removed when it shouldn't be. It certainly not always clear from the spelling when something is a prefix or actually part of the stem, or even whether something is separable or not. Dutch has some notorious pairs like this, such as (separable or prefixed),  (prefixed or normal). I assume such ambiguous cases exist in Afrikaans as well. So it's better to be explicit in this case rather than risk removing a prefix that isn't a prefix. We could add the pref= parameter to the Afrikaans template, but I don't know if it's necessary.