Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Perfective and imperfectie forms/reply (18)

Those existing in pairs should be treated like Serbo-Croatian treats them - make the most common one a lemma, and redirect the other one using the templates which I try to keep alive. Treat other variant and secondary stems as alternative forms of one of the infinitives. You notice how usually such pairs don't differ in meaning other than perfectiveness part? :)

Prefixed forms are truly derived words, and have a separate treatment in Serbo-Croatian as well. They add and significantly (almost always unpredictably) modify the original meaning. Each of those prefixes can introduce half a dozen semantic modifications which are listed in grammar books.

There are of course always exceptions and special cases (usually one of the forms shares all of the meanings of another, but has some special ones on its own, which I usually handle by listing them below the redirection template), but the base argument seems to be solid and applicable to the majority of cases.