I turned a page on french mini story, catherine adopts a cat without lingqing any of the words. This resulted in them all being lingqed at level 4 without definitions.
Yes. When you turn a page on LingQ, you are signaling to LingQ that you either know, or have created LingQs for, all the words on that page. If you don’t/haven’t, don’t turn the page.
However, if you do it accidentally, don’t worry: in the vast majority of cases, you will come across the unknown words again very soon, When that happens, just mark them as LingQs and you’ll be fine.
I’m not sure about what this is. You are talking about the blue words right? Have they become known words (white words), or have they become a lingq, with a chosen definition from the popular meaning, and then marked at level 4?
EDIT: sorry, you said without definition. But are they lingqs now, and not known words right? Because there is a difference with level 4, they have an underline when you read them afterward.
@liamscott1 Paging lessons automatically moves all remaining blue words on that page to known. We assume you have created LingQs for all unknown words before paging.
Automatic removal of blue words can be turned off in the Settings for the Reader. The “Move words to known” option is the one to turn off. However, this just means that when you click the complete Lesson option on the last page, all your blue words for the whole lesson will be moved to known. There is no reason to keep blue words. The idea is that you either need to learn them or they are known (or you can ignore words).
Having said that, you can click on all white words to make them blue again and create LingQs for them. So, if you are reading, and come across a word you incorrectly marked as known or ignored, just click on it to make it blue.
Finally, you can reset your language in your Language Settings - Login - LingQ
Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.