User:Bendono/Issues

Below is a list of issues that I have run into while creating Japanese entries. This is a work in progress and when more complete I will present it for discussion and available options.

Verbs

• Need a way to identify the stem.

  ex: yom-, tabe-, sak-

• Need a way to indicate transitivity

  Transitive or intransitive

• Need a way to indicate irregular verbs

  K-irregular:

  N-irregular

  S-irregular

  R-irregular

• Need a way to indicate the classical form of a verb

  ex: 食べる < 食ぶ, 逃げる > 逃ぐ

• Need a way to distinguish between upper and lower verb classes
• Suggest common English terminology for verb classes:

  四段: quadrigrade

  五段: quintigrade

  上一段: upper monograde

  上二段: upper bigrade

  下一段: lower monograde

  下二段: lower bigrade

  カ変: k-irregular

  サ変: s-irregular

  ナ変: n-irregular

  ラ変: r-irregular

Adjectives

• The classical form of adjectives should be specified in entry

  ex: 高い from 高し, 新しい from 新し

• Need a way to indicate type of adjective: -ku or -siku

Other

• WT:AJA recommends that "[d]efinitions should be restricted to simple translation glosses". There is often large semantic areas that do not overlap. Looking at a translation gloss is often uninformative or deceptive about the meaning and actual usage. Should emphasize descriptive definitions possibly followed by translation glosses.