Spanish nouns that switch their articles

[andrewtavis]

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Description

This issue deals with adding data to Wikidata that could indicate which nouns in Spanish switch their articles to avoid difficult pronunciations. An example: agua (water) is feminine, but it's "el agua" to avoid "la agua" (but still "las aguas").

It would be convenient if Wikidata would also have a widely used article property such that nouns that have articles that don't match their gender could be indicated when they're annotated. This could be as simple as putting the correct article in the gender annotation.

[andrewtavis]

Base on conversations in the lexicographical data Telegram channel we’ll need create a new entity stress on initial a that can then be used with Q2865743 and Q110786 where the value for the form is then el. We then use this new combination and mark all those words that should have a masculine article regardless of being feminine and format the nouns formatting script for Spanish to then add the values as a column.

Once the property is made we also need to document it and its usage on the Spanish lexeme documentation. We’ll then be ready to apply this in Scribe-iOS where we could have the color and normal annotation change to adding a colon and the actual gender, so something like F: el.