diff --git a/R/textMetadata.R b/R/textMetadata.R
index c743fa8..834fa11 100644
--- a/R/textMetadata.R
+++ b/R/textMetadata.R
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 #' @param textSigle unique text id (concatenation of corpus, document and text ids, separated by `/`, e.g. ) or vector thereof
 #' @param verbose logical. If `TRUE`, additional diagnostics are printed. Defaults to `kco@verbose`.
 #'
-#' @return Tibble with columns for every metadata property. In case of errors, like non-existing texts/sigles, the tibble will also contain a row called `errors`.
+#' @return Tibble with columns for each metadata property. In case of errors, such as non-existing texts/sigles, the tibble will also contain a column called `errors`.
+#' If there are metadata columns you cannot make sense of, please ignore them. The function simply returns all the metadata it gets from the server.
 #'
 #' @importFrom urltools url_encode
 #' @importFrom dplyr bind_rows relocate mutate
diff --git a/man/textMetadata-KorAPConnection-method.Rd b/man/textMetadata-KorAPConnection-method.Rd
index d5a3d23..bc1bbca 100644
--- a/man/textMetadata-KorAPConnection-method.Rd
+++ b/man/textMetadata-KorAPConnection-method.Rd
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 \item{verbose}{logical. If \code{TRUE}, additional diagnostics are printed. Defaults to \code{kco@verbose}.}
 }
 \value{
-Tibble with columns for every metadata property. In case of errors, like non-existing texts/sigles, the tibble will also contain a row called \code{errors}.
+Tibble with columns for each metadata property. In case of errors, such as non-existing texts/sigles, the tibble will also contain a column called \code{errors}.
+If there are metadata columns you cannot make sense of, please ignore them. The function simply returns all the metadata it gets from the server.
 }
 \description{
 Retrieves metadata for a text, identified by its sigle (id) using the corresponding KorAP API