Talk:frango

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The really annoying thing about Wiktionary is that you don't send searches directly to the meaning of the word with the conjugations; instead, you simply list all of the possible forms WITHOUT a definition. This makes it annoying because you have to look up everything twice. Most places use infinitives now when referencing a verb in general, but HERE, you have to click a SECOND link to go to where you want. If I search for "frangere," I want to go STRAIGHT to the page with the definition and look up the conjugation for myself. PLEASE CHANGE WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW!!! Thank you for any help. -Kevin Charles Isaac

We pondered and researched this feature carefully some years ago. Many verbs, nouns, and adjectives have quite a large table of forms in some languages, and some languages mark special diacritics that are not normally used in running text (such as the Latin macron), and this can make it difficult and frustrating for a user to find a specific form in a large, complex table that may differ slightly from the orthography of his text example. The preferred method is to create a soft direct for each form, where the tense/case/mood/number/gender of the form is mentioned, and the user may then click through to the citation form. We understand that some users do not find this middle step useful, but it is much easier for you to click again to get to your definition than it is for many users to search through large tables trying to find their specific forms. —Stephen ^(Talk) 10:01, 14 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

• An additional problem with that is that we can't read your mind. If you look for the German inflected form stille, did you want the adjective (declined form of still) or the verb (conjugated form of stillen)? Worse, by coincidence, multiple languages can have word forms that look the same. If you type "rote", then do you want the English noun rote ("routine"), the inflected French verb rote (conjugated form of roter (“to burp”)), or the inflected German adjective rote (declined form of rot (“red”))? There's no way to know except to ask by giving you this list. Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:40, 21 August 2015 (UTC)Reply