Wiktionary talk:Lemmas

Archived feedback: November 2015
Concerning the Japanese section,

"Japanese verbs are often quite different from the humble to neutral to exalted, honorific infinitives, the plain and the polite. Humble form of to eat is itadaku, neutral is taberu, exalted is meshiagaru, each with a different conjugation. There are also the polite forms, such as tabemasu."

I think this section is confusing because itadaku and meshiagaru are not forms of taberu, they are separate verbs and as such have their own dictionary forms. It's correct that itadaku, taberu and meshiagaru all can mean to eat, but that's not relevant to what is being explained here.


 * Thanks for the feedback. Can you suggest a better example that can be used on the page? Smuconlaw (talk) 04:32, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with 211.19.59.224. Perhaps it should be reworded from "Humble form of to eat..." to something like "'Eat' could be translated as ..., ..., or ..., each of which is a different lemma." The last sentence is confusing too.  It should be made clearer that tabemasu is not a lemma, or even actually a conjugated form.  --Haplogy (話) 07:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Perhaps make it a synonym, and put an appropriate "humble" gloss on it? Equinox ◑ 22:10, 30 November 2015 (UTC)