Thread:User talk:Rua/Bot makes mistakes conjugating Dutch verbs.

When conjugating the past forms of archaic/dialectal Dutch gij-form, you often need to lengthen the last vowel of the stem, just like you do in the plural. ik kwam, wij kwamen; ik was, wij waren. As said, this also happens with the word gij. gij kwaamt, gij waart, gij zaagt, gij staalt, gij laast... There is an exception to this though, which most people aren't aware of. That is, if the stem ends with an alveolar plosive, you don't lenghten the vowel. gij zat, gij badt, gij tradt... This rule isn't followed by this bot though, it seems to me. First I found this article(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aanbaadt#Dutch), which I corrected, but it seems this mistake has been made systematically among all such verbs in Dutch. I'm posting this here because I don't know how to remove pages like (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aanbaadt#Dutch) and because I think this is a problem that's better solved by reprogramming a bot.

Other examples of pages that need fixing are: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/traadt#Dutch https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bidden#Dutch

"source": I'm a native speaker of Flemish Dutch (tussentaal), where the gij-pronoun is still widely used.