User:-sche/basic English

It has sometimes been said that Wiktionary's coverage of basic words is lacking. I have overhauled or checked (some were already mostly overhauled by other people) the common, important words on this list that have been struck through, so that they are covered in as much or more detail in Wiktionary as/than in other major dictionaries. For methodology or to suggest/request words, see talk page.

Nouns

1. circle
2. concrete
3. day
4. drop (mostly done noun: still to do: other POS)
5. issue
6. language
7. law
8. life
9. line
10. love (done noun only)
11. man (noun and verb)
12. person
13. shape
14. square
15. thing
16. time
17. woman
18. word
19. world
20. year

Verbs

1. be
2. create
3. do
4. get
5. get off
6. go
7. have
8. know
9. make
10. say
11. see
12. set
13. settle
14. take
15. turn around
16. warn
17. will

Adjectives

1. absolute
2. bad
3. first
4. good
5. high
6. inside (partially done)
7. last
8. left
9. low (done adj; still to do: other POS, etyms, sort syns, translations)
10. new
11. old
12. other
13. outside (partially done)
14. own
15. right (sort out etymologies)

Prepositions

1. to
2. of
3. in
4. for
5. on
6. with
7. at
8. by
9. from
10. up
11. about
12. into
13. over
14. after
15. beneath
16. under
17. above

Articles

1. the
2. a
3. an

Conjunctions

1. or
2. and
3. but

Demonstratives

1. this (these)
2. that (those)

Pronouns

1. I, me, my, mine, myself
2. you, your, yours, yourself
3. he, him, his, himself
4. she, her, hers, herself
5. it, its, it's, itself
6. they, them, their, theirs, themselves, themself
7. we, us, our, ourselves (ourself)
8. thou, thee, thy, thine, thyself

Compare He, Him, His, Himself = just he + referent understood from context + honorific capitalization. And on that note: Me, My, Mine, Myself; You, Your, Yours; Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine, Thyself; She, Her, Hers, Herself; It, Its, It's, Itself; They, Them, Their, Theirs, Themselves (Themself); We, Us, Our, Ourselves.

Other words

1. not
2. like
3. as (except no pronoun section was added)
4. when
5. more
6. less
7. fewer
8. few
9. many
10. however
11. next and next to
12. essentialism, institutionalism : compare to WP