Talk:bundesstadt

RFM discussion: January 2024

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bundesstadt

• bundesstadt

Procedural listing here after an IP user added the template but forgot to list it here for discussion. (I hope this is the correct procedure in this scenario). IP user's rationale: or simply this, to Bundesstadt, and fixing the header, plural is rather Bundesstädte then bundesstadten. Thanks, Cremastra (talk) 21:38, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Cremastra Nouns are capitalised in German, which is why the IP has requested the move. It's a really fundamental aspect of German grammar, so could I please ask that you don't add entries in languages you don't know? Theknightwho (talk) 21:44, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Theknightwho I am aware that nouns are capitalised in German, but I thought that the Wiktionary lower-case policy would override that, so I created it in lowercase. However, you are correct that I do not know German, so I will not create further German entries. Thank-you. Cremastra (talk) 21:47, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Cremastra Thanks. I've moved the entry and corrected the plural. The policy on capitalisation is that we give the term in its lemma form (in over-simplified terms: the normal form). English normally uses lowercase for nouns except under special circumstances (e.g. start of a sentence), so we use lowercase, but we capitalise (most) English proper nouns since (most of) them are always capitalised. By contrast, German always uses uppercase for nouns in all contexts. German verbs, on the other hand, are in lowercase. Theknightwho (talk) 21:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)