Category talk:French verbs with conjugation -er

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Indian subcontinent in topic RFD discussion: January 2016–May 2021
Jump to navigation Jump to search

RFD discussion: January 2016–May 2021

[edit]

The following information passed a request for deletion (permalink).

This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.


Redundant to Category:French first group verbs. I don't think there's any distinction to be made here, and French first group verbs is a much better title as it describes the conjugation pattern. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:21, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

These aren't quite the same thing. The above category doesn't include the subclasses like Category:French verbs with conjugation -cer. I personally don't like the name Category:French first group verbs as it isn't obvious which verbs are talked about unless you happen to know what "first group" means. (AFAIK, the first/second/third group division is taught to French students but not to American students, who instead learn about -er, -ir, -re and sometimes -oir verbs.) I think the categories should have names something like Category:French regular -er verbs, Category:French regular -ir verbs and Category:French irregular verbs, which is more descriptive and fits the way they are named in other languages (at least, Category:X irregular verbs exists in many languages). Benwing2 (talk) 20:56, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
To be honest, I think most people are familiar with the word noun, but not many understand what a noun is. Renard Migrant (talk) 13:16, 19 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
@Renard Migrant My point was that a helluvalot more English speakers know what a noun is than what the three orders of French verbs are. Sorry if that wasn't clear earlier. Purplebackpack89 22:56, 23 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Merge into Category:French regular -er verbs both Category:French verbs with conjugation -er and Category:French first group verbs. The latter two names don't sound very good, and "-er verbs" is in fact what they are generally called. --WikiTiki89 00:53, 19 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
What does the third group become? Category:French regular -ir verbs is obvious enough, is the third group Category:French irregular verbs? Renard Migrant (talk) 13:15, 19 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
I think so. The way I was taught, there are regular -er verbs, regular -ir verbs, a small set of regular -re verbs (vendre, rendre, and maybe a dozen others in -dre, plus maybe vaincre), and all other verbs are irregular. The vendre/rendre/etc. verbs are a small group, and it may not be worth making a special group just for them. Benwing2 (talk) 08:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
BTW, the page on vendre actually says it belongs to the "regular -re verbs", which are claimed to include verbs in -andre, -endre, -ondre, -erdre and -ordre and the group is said to be "fairly large", so it might be more than a dozen. Benwing2 (talk) 08:30, 20 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:fr-conj-re is useful though there may be more due to {{fr-conj-auto}}. 'Regular' becomes subjective at this point, which is sadly unavoidable. The problem with vaincre is the -que forms which makes it less regular. But does less regular mean irregular? I guess we'll have to go through these on a case-by-case basis, or just leave them uncategorized. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:12, 20 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, at a certain point it become subjective what's regular and not. It doesn't matter much to me where it goes exactly. Benwing2 (talk) 22:52, 23 January 2016 (UTC)Reply


Hello everyone, I'd like to add my considerations to this deletion request. I am an user of the Italian wiktionary, and I use en.wikt basically for consulting, and I must say that, as a reader, I find these categories useful: they provide an insight on the inflection models of the french verbs (on a more selfish note, I use them to retrieve lists of verbs this). That said, I see Renard Migrant's point, but maybe the objection could be bypassed by reorganizing these categories as subcategories of the "group" categories, with a cat tree like:
and so on; the same could be made for Category:French third group verbs, which could contain Category:French verbs with conjugation tenir, eventually a "French verbs with conjugation -dre", "-indre" and so on...
there could only be a problem with the Category:French second group verbs, since a category "French second-group verbs with conjugation -ir" would probably be redundant, the only outgroup would only contain haïr (if I'm not mistaken); anyway it could be helpful to differentiate these verbs from the third goup's verbs in -ir, like partir or soutenir...
these were my very personal two cents, I hope you could find them useful... in any case, keep up your great work and have a nice day :). ciao, --12:37, 11 April 2019 (UTC)