Talk:aferrar

RFV discussion: January–July 2014

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aferrar

Contributors to Spanish Wikcionario agree that this verb is regular in Spanish, not diphthongal. So does the Royal Spanish Academy. If this is changed a number of correct inflected forms need adding and wrong ones deleting.--Keith Edkins (talk) 15:32, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

After DRAE the regular conjugation prevails, but the diphthongal is obsolete and still in use. Google Ngramm search shows that aferro is about 20 times more frequent than afierro, but afierro is still found in recent books. I've added the regular conjugation and a note to the entry. Matthias Buchmeier (talk) 18:37, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

How can it be "obsolete and still in use"? --WikiTiki89 18:41, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

The authoritative DRAE says: Has had diphthongal conjugation. In use mainly with regular conjugation. and gives only the regular conjugation table. I guess that means that the diphthongal conjugation is obsoleted by DRAE, but some people still use it as evidenced by Ngram. Matthias Buchmeier (talk) 23:37, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Closed. No entry or sense was being disputed, and the conjugation issue has been dealt with. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 21:09, 6 July 2014 (UTC)