User:-sche/basic English

It has sometimes been said that Wiktionary's coverage of basic words is lacking. I have overhauled or checked (some were already mostly overhauled by other people) the common, important words on this list that have been struck through, so that they are covered in as much or more detail in Wiktionary as/than in other major dictionaries. For methodology or to suggest/request words, see talk page.

Nouns

 * 1) circle
 * 2) concrete
 * 3) day
 * 4) drop (mostly done noun: still to do: other POS)
 * 5) issue
 * 6) language
 * 7) law
 * 8) life
 * 9) line
 * 10) love (done noun only)
 * 11)  man (noun and verb)
 * 12) person
 * 13) shape
 * 14) square
 * 15) thing
 * 16) time
 * 17) woman
 * 18) word
 * 19) world
 * 20) year

Verbs

 * 1) be
 * 2) create
 * 3) do
 * 4) get
 * 5) get off
 * 6) go
 * 7) have
 * 8) know
 * 9) make
 * 10) say
 * 11) see
 * 12) set
 * 13) settle
 * 14) take
 * 15) turn around
 * 16) warn
 * 17) will

Adjectives

 * 1) absolute
 * 2) bad
 * 3) first
 * 4) good
 * 5) high
 * 6) inside (partially done)
 * 7) last
 * 8) left
 * 9) low (done adj; still to do: other POS, etyms, sort syns, translations)
 * 10) new
 * 11) old
 * 12) other
 * 13) outside (partially done)
 * 14) own
 * 15) right (sort out etymologies)

Prepositions

 * 1) to
 * 2) of
 * 3) in
 * 4) for
 * 5) on
 * 6) with
 * 7) at
 * 8) by
 * 9) from
 * 10) up
 * 11) about
 * 12) into
 * 13) over
 * 14) after
 * 15) beneath
 * 16) under
 * 17) above

Articles

 * 1) the
 * 2) a
 * 3) an

Conjunctions

 * 1) or
 * 2) and
 * 3) but

Demonstratives

 * 1) this (these)
 * 2) that (those)

Pronouns

 * 1) I, me, my, mine, myself
 * 2) you, your, yours, yourself
 * 3) he, him, his, himself
 * 4) she, her, hers, herself
 * 5) it, its, it's, itself
 * 6) they, them, their, theirs, themselves, themself
 * 7) we, us, our, ourselves (ourself)
 * 8) thou, thee, thy, thine, thyself

Compare He, Him, His, Himself = just he + referent understood from context + honorific capitalization. And on that note: Me, My, Mine, Myself; You, Your, Yours; Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine, Thyself; She, Her, Hers, Herself; It, Its, It's, Itself; They, Them, Their, Theirs, Themselves (Themself); We, Us, Our, Ourselves.

Other words

 * 1) not
 * 2) like
 * 3) as (except no pronoun section was added)
 * 4) when
 * 5) more
 * 6) less
 * 7) fewer
 * 8) few
 * 9) many
 * 10) however
 * 11) next and next to
 * 12) essentialism, institutionalism : compare to WP