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RuakhTALK 07:35, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Would you add {{Babel}} to your user page? I'd appreciate it. Thank you for your contribution so far. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:36, 23 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

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I know the translations we give for Hebrew lemmata is technically wrong, but it's basically universal practice to define a lemma as a lemma. The lemma for verbs in Hebrew is different from the lemma in English, but we should still translate this way. — [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. 17:17, 26 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

I don't see this applicable on Latin verbs, which are defined correctly (As first person indicative). CrescentStorm (talk) 17:26, 26 October 2018 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, they did it wrong. Probably a long time before it ever came up as a policy matter. Ideally those should all be changed to definitions in the infinitive. — [ זכריה קהת ] Zack. 17:31, 26 October 2018 (UTC)Reply