User:-sche/basic English

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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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  1. the
  2. a
  3. an

Conjunctions

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  1. or
  2. and
  3. but

Demonstratives

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

Pronouns

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  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

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  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