Template:nl-noun

nl-noun ? (plural [please provide], diminutive [please provide])

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The following documentation is located at Template:nl-noun/documentation. ^[edit]

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Uses Lua:

• Module:nl-headword

This is the template to use for Dutch nouns. Use it directly under the “Noun” header (e.g. for boom (“tree”)):

==Dutch==

===Noun===
{{nl-noun|m|-en|+}}

# [[tree]]

There are three specialised versions of this template. {{nl-noun-dim}} is used for diminutives. {{nl-noun-dim-tant}} is used for diminutiva tantum, i.e. nouns that are diminutive in form (and have usually originated as actual diminutives), but have taken on an independent meaning. {{nl-noun-adj}} is used for adjectives that are used as nouns, such as jongere or volwassene.

This template contains the necessary meta-data to allow users who are using accelerated editing to create any grammatical forms semi-automatically.

Parameter overview

This is a short overview of the parameters used by this template. See below for more details on their usage.

|1=, |g2=, |g3=, ...

Gender

|2=, |pl2=, |pl3=, ...

Plural

|3=, |dim2=, |dim3=, ...

Diminutive

|f=, |f2=, |f3=, ...

Female equivalent

|m=, |m2=, |m3=, ...

Male equivalent

|head=, |head2=, |head3=, ...

Override the headword

Usage

This template can take various parameters, both numbered and named. See m:Help:Template for help with templates and parameters in general.

Parameter 1 provides the gender, parameters 2 and 3 stand for the plural and diminutive, respectively. To specify multiple genders, plurals or diminutives, use g2=, g3=, pl2=, pl3=, dim2=.

Gender

Use m as the first parameter to indicate masculine gender, f for feminine, n for neuter. p is used if the noun is used only in the plural with this meaning, but does not necessarily denote several things (plurale tantum). To specify more than one gender, use g2= or g3=. If you’re not sure about the gender, use ? as the gender or just leave it empty. If you know that the noun is a de word, but not whether it's masculine or feminine, use c.

Following Wiktionary:About Dutch, the special "v/m" gender prescribed by the Taalunie should be denoted here as simply f, never as f|g2=m. In practice, most of these nouns are simply feminine to speakers who distinguish three genders. Include multiple genders only if speakers that distinguish three genders would use either gender for the word.

Plural

The second parameter is used to specify the plural.

• Use -en to generate a plural in -en. It will automatically lengthen the vowel or double the final consonant as needed.

On the page beest:

{{nl-noun|n|-en|+}}

beest n (plural beesten, diminutive beestje n)

On the page boom:

{{nl-noun|m|-en|+}}

boom m (plural bomen, diminutive boompje n)

• Use -ven and -zen to voice final -f and -s, respectively:

On the page huis:

{{nl-noun|n|-zen|+}}

huis n (plural huizen, diminutive huisje n)

• Use -eren for a plural in -eren:

On the page ei:

{{nl-noun|n|-eren|+}}

ei n (plural eieren, diminutive eitje n)

• Use -:en to indicate that the preceding vowel is long:

On the page schip:

{{nl-noun|n|-:en|+}}

schip n (plural schepen, diminutive scheepje n)

On the page pad:

{{nl-noun|n|-:en|+}}

pad n (plural paden, diminutive paadje n)

• Use -@en to indicate that the preceding vowel is reduced:

On the page artikel:

{{nl-noun|n|-@en|pl2=-s|+}}

artikel n (plural artikelen or artikels, diminutive artikeltje n)

• Use -s to generate a plural in -s. Use the alternative form -'s when the noun ends in a vowel, and -es when the noun ends in a frictave:

On the page nummer:

{{nl-noun|n|-s|+}}

nummer n (plural nummers, diminutive nummertje n)

On the page foto:

{{nl-noun|n|-'s|+}}

foto n (plural foto's, diminutive fotootje n)

On the page sketch:

{{nl-noun|n|-es|+}}

sketch n (plural sketches, diminutive sketchje n)

• Use - to indicate that the word is uncountable, and has no plural:

On the page ijs:

{{nl-noun|n|-|+}}

ijs n (uncountable, diminutive ijsje n)

Diminutive

The third parameter is used to specify the diminutive.

• Use + to request that a diminutive be formed according to the default algorithm (which generally adds -tje, -pje, -je or -etje depending on the final consonant of the noun, and doubles the final consonant as needed). For example:

On the page boom:

{{nl-noun|n|-en|+}}

boom n (plural bomen, diminutive boompje n)

The default diminutive algorithm invoked by + knows about the irregular diminutives of certain common words and their compounds, such as schip (“ship”), jongen (“boy”), etc. For example:

On the page herdersjongen (“shepherd boy”):

{{nl-noun|m|-s|+}}

herdersjongen m (plural herdersjongens, diminutive herdersjongetje n)

• Use - to omit the diminutive:

On the page groente:

{{nl-noun|f|-en|pl2=-s|-}}

groente f (plural groenten or groentes)

Compound headword

• Use parameter head= to override the headword, for example to add links:

On the page zin van het leven:

{{nl-noun|head={{l|nl|zin}} {{l|nl|van}} {{l|nl|het}} {{l|nl|leven}}|m|-|-}}

zin van het leven m (uncountable)

Gendered forms

• Use f= to specify the equivalent feminine form of a masculine noun:

On the page schrijver:

{{nl-noun|m|-s|+|f=schrijfster}}

schrijver m (plural schrijvers, diminutive schrijvertje n, feminine schrijfster)

• Use m= to specify the equivalent masculine form of a feminine noun:

On the page slavin:

{{nl-noun|f|-en|+|m=slaaf}}

slavin f (plural slavinnen, diminutive slavinnetje n, masculine slaaf)

Inline modifiers

All inflected forms (plurals, diminutives, masculine and feminine variants, etc.) can take inline modifiers to specify qualifiers, labels, references, genders, and ID's. The following is an example of attaching labels to alternative plural forms using the inline modifier <l:...>.

On the page blad:

{{nl-noun|n|-:eren|pl2=bladen<l:rare>|pl3=blaren<l:dialectal,archaic,poetic>|blaadje}}

blad n (plural bladeren or (rare) bladen or (dialectal, archaic, poetic) blaren, diminutive blaadje n)

In general, inline modifiers take the form shown, using angle brackets <...>, inside of which is a modifier prefix followed by a colon and the value. The following modifiers are supported:

• <l:label1,label2,...>: Specify left label(s) for an inflected form (i.e. labels to be displayed before the form). Multiple labels should be comma-separated without any space after the comma (if there is a space after the comma, the comma and space will be treated as part of the label).
• <ll:label1,label2,...>: Specify right label(s) for an inflected form (i.e. labels to be displayed after the form). Same format as for <l:...>.
• <q:qualifier>: Specify a left qualifier for an inflected form (i.e. a qualifier to be displayed before the form). Commas are not recognized as separators, but to specify multiple qualifiers just separate them with a comma and space, which will be displayed literally. The difference between labels and qualifiers is analogous to the difference between {{lb}} and {{q}}, except that labels specified as inline modifiers don't categorize. That is, qualifiers are always displayed literally, but labels may be linked to the glossary or to Wikipedia, and may display differently from how they were specified.
• <qq:qualifier>: Specify a right qualifier for an inflected form (i.e. a qualifier to be displayed after the form). Same format as for <q:...>.
• <g:gender1,gender2,...>: Specify one or more comma-separated gender/number specifications, such as f for feminine or n-p for neuter plural. See Module:gender and number for the exact syntax of such specifications.
• <id:id>: Specify a sense ID to link to for the inflected form; see {{senseid}}.
• <ref:...>: Specify a reference or references. See Template:IPA/documentation#References for the syntax of references; the syntax is the same as for the |refN= parameter.