diff --git a/src/data-access/MwApiLexemeCreator.ts b/src/data-access/MwApiLexemeCreator.ts
index 8e9ebe30..615d7a1b 100644
--- a/src/data-access/MwApiLexemeCreator.ts
+++ b/src/data-access/MwApiLexemeCreator.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ export default class MwApiLexemeCreator implements LexemeCreator {
 				},
 				language: lexemeLanguageItemId,
 				lexicalCategory: lexicalCategoryItemId,
+				forms: [
+					{
+						add: '',
+						representations: {
+							[ lemmaLanguageCode ]: {
+								language: lemmaLanguageCode,
+								value: lemma,
+							},
+						},
+					},
+				],
 			} ),
 			errorformat: 'html',
 			formatversion: 2,
diff --git a/tests/unit/data-access/MwApiLexemeCreator.test.ts b/tests/unit/data-access/MwApiLexemeCreator.test.ts
index ba99f2a6..5f3045ea 100644
--- a/tests/unit/data-access/MwApiLexemeCreator.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/data-access/MwApiLexemeCreator.test.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ describe( 'MwApiLexemeCreator', () => {
 				},
 				language: 'Q123',
 				lexicalCategory: 'Q456',
+				forms: [
+					{
+						add: '',
+						representations: {
+							en: {
+								language: 'en',
+								value: 'lemma',
+							},
+						},
+					},
+				],
 			} ),
 			assert: 'user',
 			errorformat: 'html',