Vocab answers changed?

Bunpro
#1

Incredibly pedantic here but I used to answer every verb, EVERY VERB with the dictionary form. I guess i just liked to practice remembering the end of verbs this way. Today when I logged on I’ve had COUNTLESS answers marked wrong by typing the full dictionary verb instead of the only relevant “stem” (if you could call it that?). This didn’t use to cause a fail, but now, it is causing fails, and constantly so.

Of course since I guessed right I undid them and wrote it the way they wanted, but I wonder if anything changed platform-wise. I’ve had this habit for so long it’s pretty annoying to fix back. I guess this is because some words, probably the ずる/じる pairs were annoying to add variations for?

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#2

Hi there!

Are you using the app or the website?
AFAIK we haven’t changed this recently.

Are you able to give an example of a verb that was working before but isn’t now?

#3

Hi, I’m currently on the website.
Had to pull up my summary for the list. Here are some words I missed due to writing dictionary form. None of them caused a mistake before this, AFAIK:

  • 改める
  • 振り向く
  • 抱える
  • 恵まれる
  • お休みになる
  • 言い出す
  • 潰す

Coincidentally, this is the list of every word that was not in dictionary form on the example I got for the review. That’s really why I came here to ask, thought it was a system-wide change. All other verbs where dictionary form was accepted was on sentences where the dictionary form was part of the sentence.

#4

Just noticed it, while using Marugoto three first textbooks for vocab
Before i could just type the dictionnary form, now if the verb has okurigana like past, polite etc, i need to write the stem else it’s wrong.

It did happens to me before, but not this strictly as it started to be.

Some verbs would be wrong instead of telling me to use the transitive/intransitive, another with close meaning, or dictionnary instead of stem.
Now, it does that on every verb.

#5

I’ve also encountered this a few times on my reviews recently. I’ve been going through a lot of reviews today, so i couldn’t say exactly which ones were getting flagged as incorrect, but I will keep an eye out and report back when I get more information.

Because the full dictionary verbs were not previously marked as incorrect on a conjugated answer, I would typically mix my answers. When I was just trying to move quickly, I would give the dictionary version of a verb every time so that I didn’t have to think about the whether or not it was conjugated and I could just go off of the hint. When I have more time for my review batches, then I will typically read through the sentence and decide whether the dictionary version or the stem is needed in the answer (because the conjugation is already filled in with the rest of the sentence)