Category talk:Dutch terms suffixed with -en
Latest comment: 8 years ago by -sche in topic RFC discussion: August 2011–February 2016
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Most of the members of this category are just verbs, which end in -en because that's the infinitive suffix in Dutch. In theory any verb could go here, so that doesn't really make much sense. The only legitimate example of -en as a suffix seems to be the 'material adjective', which is the same in English ('golden'). —CodeCat 18:35, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
- By way of analogy rather than as a true response, many French verbs are formed from stem + suffix. Aimer is undeniably from Latin amō, but podcaster is from podcast + -er. So there are some French verbs suffixed with -er. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:21, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
- So, should the category be deleted? Or simply purged of erroneous content? - -sche (discuss) 22:34, 14 February 2016 (UTC)