Talk:thinken
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Leasnam in topic thoughten
thoughten
[edit]Hello, @Anglish4699, Leasnam, thanks for helping! Actually, my main aim in creating this entry was to try and clean up thoughten which has been listed at "Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup" since March 2011. How do we link it to this entry now that you have changed the inflected forms? — SGconlaw (talk) 03:20, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- I believe one can put "past2=thoughten" or "past_ptc2=thoughten" in the verb conjugation over the definitions. For "plural simple past and past participle". Anglish4699 (talk) 03:27, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- Something like
thinken (third-person singular simple present thinketh, present participle thinkende, simple past thoght, past participle ithoght or thoughten) I believe is what you're getting at? Anglish4699 (talk) 03:31, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- OK, that should work. — SGconlaw (talk) 03:32, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- Though I wouldn't know how to show specifically "plural ..." in that verb header.Anglish4699 (talk) 03:36, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- Well, we could do it manually which is what I initially did. It looks like someone needs to upgrade
{{enm-verb}}. Maybe you could leave a message at the Grease Pit? — SGconlaw (talk) 03:54, 1 December 2017 (UTC)- ME thoughten is only the past plural (indicative and subjunctive) of thinken. It is not the past participle. I've removed it from the header, but the template enm-verb needs to be modified to allow the other arguments. They're not displaying correctly. The Modern past participle thoughten, like boughten, was formed on analogy with past participles like gotten, and is not inherited from Middle English. Typically, we only show the first person past form of the ME verb in the header, but I am not opposed to showing the plural, as in some verbs (strong) it can be different Leasnam (talk) 10:44, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for explaining. However, was this edit correct? It doesn't seem to have achieved what you wanted to display, though I don't know why. — SGconlaw (talk) 15:21, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- No, there's still something messed up with it. I'll have to take a closer look when I've got more time to devote to it Leasnam (talk) 18:58, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for explaining. However, was this edit correct? It doesn't seem to have achieved what you wanted to display, though I don't know why. — SGconlaw (talk) 15:21, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- ME thoughten is only the past plural (indicative and subjunctive) of thinken. It is not the past participle. I've removed it from the header, but the template enm-verb needs to be modified to allow the other arguments. They're not displaying correctly. The Modern past participle thoughten, like boughten, was formed on analogy with past participles like gotten, and is not inherited from Middle English. Typically, we only show the first person past form of the ME verb in the header, but I am not opposed to showing the plural, as in some verbs (strong) it can be different Leasnam (talk) 10:44, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- Well, we could do it manually which is what I initially did. It looks like someone needs to upgrade
- Though I wouldn't know how to show specifically "plural ..." in that verb header.Anglish4699 (talk) 03:36, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- OK, that should work. — SGconlaw (talk) 03:32, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
thenken
[edit]Also, please check the variant thenken and see if I have indicated the inflections correctly. Thanks. — SGconlaw (talk) 03:30, 1 December 2017 (UTC)