diff --git a/src/app.rs b/src/app.rs
index 4ad235f..d124b2e 100644
--- a/src/app.rs
+++ b/src/app.rs
@@ -5862,6 +5862,26 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    // ── Phase C batch 2: DDL hints render (incl. multi-form DROP) ──
+
+    #[test]
+    fn f1_on_create_table_renders_its_hint_block() {
+        let mut app = App::new();
+        type_str(&mut app, "create table Customers with pk id(serial)");
+        f1(&mut app);
+        assert!(output_contains(&app, "Create a new table"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn f1_disambiguates_drop_forms() {
+        let mut app = App::new();
+        type_str(&mut app, "drop index idx_email");
+        f1(&mut app);
+        // Resolves drop_index, not drop_table/column/etc.
+        assert!(output_contains(&app, "Remove an index by name"));
+        assert!(!output_contains(&app, "Remove a table"));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn messages_command_toggles_verbosity_and_reports() {
         let mut app = App::new();
diff --git a/src/dsl/grammar/ddl.rs b/src/dsl/grammar/ddl.rs
index 69e7774..d1de91c 100644
--- a/src/dsl/grammar/ddl.rs
+++ b/src/dsl/grammar/ddl.rs
@@ -968,7 +968,13 @@ pub static DROP: CommandNode = CommandNode {
     shape: DROP_SHAPE,
     ast_builder: build_drop,
     help_id: Some("ddl.drop"),
-    hint_ids: &[],
+    hint_ids: &[
+        "drop_table",
+        "drop_column",
+        "drop_relationship",
+        "drop_index",
+        "drop_constraint",
+    ],
     usage_ids: &[
         "parse.usage.drop_table",
         "parse.usage.drop_column",
@@ -1004,7 +1010,7 @@ pub static RENAME: CommandNode = CommandNode {
     shape: RENAME_COLUMN,
     ast_builder: build_rename_column,
     help_id: Some("ddl.rename"),
-    hint_ids: &[],
+    hint_ids: &["rename_column"],
     usage_ids: &["parse.usage.rename_column"],};
 
 pub static CHANGE: CommandNode = CommandNode {
@@ -1012,7 +1018,7 @@ pub static CHANGE: CommandNode = CommandNode {
     shape: CHANGE_COLUMN,
     ast_builder: build_change_column,
     help_id: Some("ddl.change"),
-    hint_ids: &[],
+    hint_ids: &["change_column"],
     usage_ids: &["parse.usage.change_column"],};
 
 // =================================================================
@@ -1373,7 +1379,7 @@ pub static CREATE: CommandNode = CommandNode {
     shape: CREATE_TABLE,
     ast_builder: build_create_table,
     help_id: Some("ddl.create"),
-    hint_ids: &[],
+    hint_ids: &["create_table"],
     usage_ids: &["parse.usage.create_table"],};
 
 // =================================================================
@@ -1442,7 +1448,7 @@ pub static CREATE_M2N: CommandNode = CommandNode {
     shape: CREATE_M2N_SHAPE,
     ast_builder: build_create_m2n,
     help_id: Some("ddl.create_m2n"),
-    hint_ids: &[],
+    hint_ids: &["create_m2n"],
     usage_ids: &["parse.usage.create_m2n"],
 };
 
diff --git a/src/dsl/grammar/mod.rs b/src/dsl/grammar/mod.rs
index 4ba3c1e..1bcdc36 100644
--- a/src/dsl/grammar/mod.rs
+++ b/src/dsl/grammar/mod.rs
@@ -917,9 +917,12 @@ mod hint_key_tests {
             hint_key_for_input_in_mode("insert into T values (1)", Mode::Simple),
             Some("insert")
         );
-        // A node with no hint_ids yet → None (tier-2 fallback).
-        assert_eq!(hint_key_for_input_in_mode("drop table T", Mode::Simple), None);
-        // Unknown entry word → None.
+        // Multi-form DROP disambiguates to the typed form too.
+        assert_eq!(
+            hint_key_for_input_in_mode("drop table T", Mode::Simple),
+            Some("drop_table")
+        );
+        // Unknown entry word → None (tier-2 fallback).
         assert_eq!(hint_key_for_input_in_mode("zzz", Mode::Simple), None);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/friendly/keys.rs b/src/friendly/keys.rs
index 3edaaf3..c27c436 100644
--- a/src/friendly/keys.rs
+++ b/src/friendly/keys.rs
@@ -269,6 +269,43 @@ pub const KEYS_AND_PLACEHOLDERS: &[(&str, &[&str])] = &[
     ("hint.cmd.redo.example", &[]),
     ("hint.cmd.copy.what", &[]),
     ("hint.cmd.copy.example", &[]),
+    // Phase C batch 2 — DDL command hints.
+    ("hint.cmd.create_table.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.create_table.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.create_table.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.create_m2n.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.create_m2n.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.create_m2n.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.add_column.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.add_column.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.add_column.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.add_index.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.add_index.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.add_index.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.add_constraint.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.add_constraint.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.add_constraint.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_table.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_table.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_table.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_column.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_column.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_column.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_relationship.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_relationship.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_relationship.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_index.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_index.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_index.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_constraint.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_constraint.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.drop_constraint.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.rename_column.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.rename_column.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.rename_column.concept", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.change_column.what", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.change_column.example", &[]),
+    ("hint.cmd.change_column.concept", &[]),
     (
         "hint.ambient_invalid_ident",
         &["kind", "found"],
diff --git a/src/friendly/strings/en-US.yaml b/src/friendly/strings/en-US.yaml
index c785a81..9639ccb 100644
--- a/src/friendly/strings/en-US.yaml
+++ b/src/friendly/strings/en-US.yaml
@@ -456,6 +456,55 @@ hint:
     copy:
       what: "Copy the output panel to the clipboard — all of it, or just the last command's output."
       example: "copy last"
+    # DDL — schema-shaping commands (Phase C batch 2).
+    create_table:
+      what: "Create a new table — its columns, their types, and a primary key."
+      example: "create table Customers with pk id(serial), name(text), email(text)"
+      concept: "A table is a set of rows that share the same columns. The primary key uniquely identifies each row; a `serial` key numbers the rows for you."
+    create_m2n:
+      what: "Create a junction table linking two tables many-to-many."
+      example: "create m:n relationship from Students to Courses"
+      concept: "A many-to-many link (a student takes many courses; a course has many students) can't live in either table, so it gets its own junction table holding a foreign key to each side."
+    add_column:
+      what: "Add a new column to an existing table."
+      example: "add column Customers: phone (text)"
+      concept: "Existing rows take the column's default, or null. A `not null` column with no default can't be added to a table that already has rows — there'd be nothing to put in them."
+    add_index:
+      what: "Create an index on one or more columns to speed up lookups."
+      example: "add index as idx_email on Customers (email)"
+      concept: "An index is a sorted side-structure that makes a lookup like `where email = …` fast, at the cost of a little space and slightly slower writes."
+    add_constraint:
+      what: "Add a constraint — not null, unique, default, or check — to an existing column."
+      example: "add constraint not null to Customers.email"
+      concept: "A constraint is a rule the database enforces on every row. Adding one fails if existing rows already break it, so you fix the data first."
+    drop_table:
+      what: "Remove a table and all of its rows."
+      example: "drop table Customers"
+      concept: "If other tables reference this one through a relationship, drop those relationships (or their child rows) first — the database won't orphan them."
+    drop_column:
+      what: "Remove a column from a table."
+      example: "drop column Customers: phone"
+      concept: "The column's values are lost. You can't drop a primary-key column, or one a relationship depends on."
+    drop_relationship:
+      what: "Remove a relationship between two tables."
+      example: "drop relationship customer_orders"
+      concept: "This drops the foreign-key link and stops the database enforcing it; the tables and their rows stay. The foreign-key column itself remains unless you also drop it."
+    drop_index:
+      what: "Remove an index by name."
+      example: "drop index idx_email"
+      concept: "Only the lookup shortcut goes — the data is untouched. Queries still work, just without that speed-up."
+    drop_constraint:
+      what: "Remove a constraint from a column."
+      example: "drop constraint not null from Customers.email"
+      concept: "The rule stops being enforced from now on; rows already stored are left as they are."
+    rename_column:
+      what: "Rename a column, keeping its values and type."
+      example: "rename column Customers: email to contact_email"
+      concept: "Only the name changes — the stored data is the same. References to the column are reconciled so nothing breaks."
+    change_column:
+      what: "Change a column's type, converting the existing values."
+      example: "change column Customers: status (int)"
+      concept: "The database converts each stored value to the new type; if a value can't convert it refuses the change, so you don't silently lose data. Flags let you force or skip the conversion."
   err:
     foreign_key:
       child_side: