Translations:Wiktionnaire:Actualités/039-juin-2018/11/en

This month, the number of examples in the French Wiktionary exceeds 350,000! This is a huge number, but what are we dealing with exactly? The illustrative examples are sentences presented after the definitions and that help the understanding of a meaning, but not only. The examples give information about how to use a word in a sentence, what words can surround it but also the kind of text in which they can appear. They are as useful as the definitions to understand the meaning of a word, but they first attest of the existence of words and their graphic shape, when the graphical shape as to be discussed. The examples are used to attest a use, and as so are a sort of specific source to lexicographical works such as the Wiktionary.