German Mixed verbs
Hi CodeCat, I've been adding the correct ablaut class to verbs in Category:German_strong_verbs. During this action, I noticed that there is no category for "German Mixed verbs" (there is a category for "Dutch Mixed Verbs", I learned it from a talk of yours. Is it possible to add a category "German Mixed verbs" and change the template "de-verb-strong" to accommodate that change?
Not right now, no. The Dutch versions of those templates use Lua as a back-end, which is much more powerful and can do string splitting and matching. The German templates would first need to be converted to Lua to make this possible.
Thank you for your answer. I was not aware of this technical issue. If it is ok I wanted to ask you another 2 questions:
1. The verb treffen is class 3 in Dutch and class 4 in German, does that makes sense?
2. The inactive user User:Arne_List (last contribution: 2009) created a category called 2000_German_basic_words that was supposed to have 2,000 basic words from a book called "DUDEN-Wörterbuch, Deutsch als Fremdsprache". I don't have this book, but I do have the book "Basic German Vocabulary (Langenscheidt Reference)" which also contain 2,000 basic german words. Do you think it is ok to revise the category that it will be according to the Langenscheidt book? (and I will add the words to the category in the next few weeks).
Thanks
I don't really know about the category, it might be better to ask someone else.
"Treffen" was originally actually a class 5 verb. In German it's hard to tell the difference between class 3 and 4 because they have partially merged. Both would have treffen, traf, trafen, getroffen. In Dutch, the classes are still distinct, and class 3 would have a short vowel with treffen, trof, troffen, getroffen while class 4 verbs always have long vowels and it would be treven, traf, traven, getroven.