Thread:User talk:Rua/Making Module:af-headword smarter/reply

The same issue exists for Dutch, really. Cases like this could be handled transparently, but it could never predict everything. The problem is that the orthography doesn't distinguish between a stressed e and a schwa, which determines whether the following consonant should be doubled or not. The near-minimal pair of and  demonstrates this: both have imperative forms that simply end in -el, and this is the form that becomes the present stem in Afrikaans.