The problem that required users to type hyphens before plural forms now seems to be fixed.
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@EHurtt, a simple thing that might help is updating the course description and adding a link to this post in the forum, so that people known of its existence.
For example, you can check what has been done in another course in this regard: www.memrise.com/course/335725/comprehensive-german-duolingo-vocabulary/
Unfortunately, the text will not be converted to a hyperkink, so users will have to copy and paste the address, but it’s better than nothing.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
JM
This is a copy of a bug report that I just made to Memries. I hope it explains the problem clearly enough.
Until today, in the program 5000 German Words (top 87%), Memries ignored extra material in words such as das Gras, -"er. The characters , -"er are meant to signify how to puralize the word, and the user did not have to include them. Today, the response box shows red unless the extra material is included.
My user name is wichtig-Leland
Thanks – it certainly looks like a bug and I’ve reported it to Memrise. Although the edit mode allows for strict marking I’ve checked and this feature isn’t turned on.
Right - I hope this is a reply to the right message! For some reason despite the fact that strict marking has NOT been turned on (I’ve checked) we’re being strictly marked - I’ve told Memrise and just hope that we get a quick response.
Thanks for letting us know. We’re looking into the issue with ‘mark strict typing’. Hopefully we’ll get it to work correctly again shortly. Sorry for the trouble in the meantime!
I am having the issue, too. It is not the first time, however, but still very irritating. Answers are only accepted with their plural forms and with strict typing, app is practically unusable at the moment.
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Yes, this is a sudden problem – I am several thousand words into the course, and have not been learning the plurals : ( so my success rate has suddenly plummeted. I suppose I ought to have been memorising plurals too, but have just been guessing for other purposes, so it is a bit of a reality check to find I get about half the nouns ‘wrong’ on Memrise. Discouraging. perhaps I should start the whole course again! – what do other people think?
I’d hang in there for a bit – they may fix it in the next couple of days – particularly if it’s a bug that’s affecting several courses, which seems to be the case.
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This is unacceptable. They do it all the time, release something, without informing anyone and then mess everything.
Yesterday I couldn’t do anything and today looks as the problem remains.
They look like amateurs that don’t test anything before releasing it into production…
I’m considering stop being a paid member because they keep ignoring all the good suggestions the users make and keep
adding things that are not needed or wished.
I’m very disappointed even because I rely on this site to learn and now I have to stop because such stupid mistake.
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Thanks Elizabeth – it just makes me feel guilty for not learning the plurals from the start!
Brilliant, thanks 
Do you have any idea when it might be fixed please?? Thanks again
Any news about the resolution of this situation?
I’m already waiting for several days and since I need to continue studying I need to start looking for alternatives that work.
Just to motivate the team, I will cancel my subscription tomorrow in case the problem is not solved by then. I decided not to do it already today in the hope the situation is solved today.
HI Lien, No word from you, no word from Matthew and we’re into the second week of this problem. Is it just our course? I have to say it’s hampering my work too because although I learn the plurals and the strong/irregular verb tenses I don’t always put them in when I’m confident I know them . ALSO when typing in the correction, it’s now insisting you type in the whole answer, not just the core word, which is what it used to do.
No, this is a general problem. Not just with this course.
That is why I’m so upset. I need to study and this is making me to stop, almost one week now.
We make the courses to be used in a certain way and if this problem is not solved I will need to redo my courses to allow me to continue without plurals. In the end learning the plural is something that comes naturally, even if you make a mistake here and there, there is no need to force feed them. It is enough to just look and type them once in a while.
You know I actually kinda disagree with you there. The comma bug is unacceptable (but nothing in comparison to the current non-score-tracking bug), but for this course (and I don’t understand why there are so many variations of it - I’m actually a regular contributor to the ‘sorted by frequency’ version of this course - #47049 - which we’ve put a lot of work into improving the quality of), I’m actually kinda glad that I’m now forced to start typing in the plural endings, as I’ve quickly learned that there’s quite a lot of words I didn’t properly know the plural for. Anyway, it’s all academic until they actually get their ***ing act together and allow us to actually continue to use the site as intended.
Yes, it is good to learn the plural forms, but for me it is just a nice to have.
After a while you learn to make your own plurals, without having to think much about it. That is, you gain a felling for most of the cases. I still make mistakes but I don’t want to increase my fail rate due to the plurals because that is not the most important for me at present.
In the end we always think we need to learn 5000 words even if we end up not even using 2000. We always need to recognize the words in case we see them, or hear, but if you know the base word you are going to understand that Häuser is the plural of Haus, without having to memorize it. But of course, every person is different.
I created myself a copy of this course in order to improve it and make it better for me.
The fact that I can change whatever I want helps me greatly to learn and to avoid the stupid mistakes I see all the time with the other courses. Of course that this course was also a copy of other course I found on Quizlet therefore I did a copy of a copy But in this case I gained a lot of quality (this is just because I’m a perfectionist, not because I want to compete with the other courses).
This new situation is even worse. I always loved Quizlet and I guess I need to go back to basics and leave memrise sort their things out. You know the saying, if you pay peanuts you will get monkeys.
Congrats on your 585 streak!!
I had once also a big streak but only in Memrise, not on a single course. But they don’t keep counting it after one year.
Hi, I’d like to give my thanks to those who created and are maintaining this course. I started it last week and I’ve been pleased by its completeness, the helpful hints when there are various possible translations and the low number of missing vocalisations of the words.
When I started last week, I did not have to type in the plurals, and this has just occurred for me in the last 2-3 days, so I presume the problem reported two weeks ago was fixed and has now come back.
Another small problem, which is probably common to all courses, is that in recent weeks it has become necessary to hit the enter key when completing an answer of the type where you have to select multiple words (or plural endings…), in the desktop browser version (but not in the mobile app). I really like to minimise the number of keystrokes in order to move on quickly and this certainly feels to me like an unnecessary step.
In any case, thanks to Elizabeth and any other contributors!
Just to be clear, on the need to type plurals, this applies also only to the browser version. On the Android app version, plurals are not needed (and the result is accepted automatically the last word is entered), and so it is much quicker to use.
Thanks misxifRM - The ‘must hit return’ problem seems to have been resolved but as you pointed out the strict typing rulle seems to be back. I’m hoping this will be resolved quickly because it’s Memrise-wide and not just confined to our course. Elizabeth