User talk:Salvadors

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Ultimateria 19:29, 13 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Your latest entries do not have a ===part of speech=== or a headword. They need to be fixed. SemperBlotto 15:44, 10 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

They're irregular forms — my dictionary doesn't even give a headword or POS for either. I don't know the correct way to enter them. --Salvadors 15:47, 10 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

• See ho#Italian for the same term in Italian. SemperBlotto 15:52, 10 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure it's the same. Estonian doesn't have a verb for 'to have'. Instead it uses the adessive form of the personal pronoun with the relevant form of 'to be'. So "I have" is really "On-me is ..." --Salvadors 16:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

• Well, do the best you can. Without a part of speech and headword, somebody will probably delete it. SemperBlotto 16:03, 10 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
  • I've had a go at it for you. It is now of an acceptable standard. I haven't looked to see if we have Estonian entries at (deprecated template usage) mul and (deprecated template usage) on. SemperBlotto 16:10, 10 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks — I didn't realise you could do that with headwords. --Salvadors 16:14, 10 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

When you're making a new entry, you don't have to use {{et-noun (old)}}, you can just leave the genitive and partitive forms off with {{et-noun}}. — [Ric Laurent] — 17:30, 29 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

• Aha. Good to know, thanks. I assumed that if the 'old' form existed, there must be a difference between them :) On a related note, are you going to do anything more with {{et-verb}}? It would be useful to be able to add at least the -n form (and if we had the -tud too we could usually then create the entire conjugation table, but that's probably for another time!) --Salvadors 17:35, 29 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

I started working on a conjugation template and got distracted so it's sitting in a state of incompletion lol. You can see what I've got so far here, though I'm sure there's stuff missing. — [Ric Laurent] — 17:48, 29 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Looks very nice — what needs to happen to make it go live? --Salvadors 17:54, 29 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

When I was learning about Estonian, I found some decent rules for nouns' and adjectives' forms, but I never could find anything solid about verbs, so I could never write specific coding for conjugation. — [Ric Laurent] — 18:04, 29 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Also, remember to add ---- to separate the Estonian section from the other languages, like this. Thanks! :) - -sche (discuss) 17:51, 29 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Oops, thank for the reminder! --Salvadors 17:54, 29 September 2011 (UTC)Reply