Template talk:sv-noun-unc-irreg-c
Add topicI think we should cut the box off where it says "Uncountable", and replace "Singular" with "Uncountable". You see, some nouns are plural-only. Smiddle / TC@ 16:40, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- Now that this template calls
{{sv-decl-noun|uncountable=yes|...}}I have made the heading "uncountable", rather than singular. --LA2 06:28, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Irregular?
[edit]I wonder why this template is named irreg when there is nothing irregular about uncountable nouns?
Isn’t sv-noun-unc-[c/n] enough? I also wonder why the default ending is -n/-t rather then -en/-et. Surely uncountable nouns ending in a consonant are more common than those ending in a vowel, just looking at Category:Swedish uncountable nouns seems to confirm this. At the moment all definite forms of e.g. words on -het have to be typed out manually, surely this can’t be optimal?
It would make more sense to me if this template on its own yielded e.g. the template in mjölk, and that some extra parameter yielded the template in ondska, and perhaps a parameter like end=s for words on -s that don’t change in the genitive, e.g. majs. At the moment all forms of majs have to be typed out manually. Any thoughts on this? Could it be done? @LA2, @Robbie SWE, @Smiddle. --Lundgren8 (t · c) 09:18, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- I have no idea why. I have come to the conclusion that it is better to contribute, using what ever templates exist, than to try to create structure among templates. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Some users have a different approach, and I try to avoid them. --LA2 (talk) 14:04, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delayed response @Lundgren8. Unfortunately, my coding skills suck, so I'm not all that helpful there. However, is this a "big" problem or can we live with having to type out a handful of forms manually? --Robbie SWE (talk) 10:33, 24 October 2019 (UTC)