diff --git a/framework/base/Controller.php b/framework/base/Controller.php
index 41e98cb6d6..1a8ebd8ab1 100644
--- a/framework/base/Controller.php
+++ b/framework/base/Controller.php
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class Controller extends Component implements ViewContextInterface
      */
     public $id;
     /**
-     * @var Module $module the module that this controller belongs to.
+     * @var Module the module that this controller belongs to.
      */
     public $module;
     /**
diff --git a/framework/db/ActiveRelationTrait.php b/framework/db/ActiveRelationTrait.php
index 4d9caf3d4f..e8603af240 100644
--- a/framework/db/ActiveRelationTrait.php
+++ b/framework/db/ActiveRelationTrait.php
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ trait ActiveRelationTrait
      * Indexes buckets by column name.
      *
      * @param array $buckets
-     * @var string|callable $column the name of the column by which the query results should be indexed by.
+     * @param string|callable $indexBy the name of the column by which the query results should be indexed by.
      * This can also be a callable (e.g. anonymous function) that returns the index value based on the given row data.
      * @return array
      */
diff --git a/framework/db/QueryTrait.php b/framework/db/QueryTrait.php
index 67cd2bf215..d4ffbe9076 100644
--- a/framework/db/QueryTrait.php
+++ b/framework/db/QueryTrait.php
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ trait QueryTrait
      */
     public $orderBy;
     /**
-     * @var string|callable $column the name of the column by which the query results should be indexed by.
+     * @var string|callable the name of the column by which the query results should be indexed by.
      * This can also be a callable (e.g. anonymous function) that returns the index value based on the given
      * row data. For more details, see [[indexBy()]]. This property is only used by [[QueryInterface::all()|all()]].
      */
diff --git a/framework/web/UserEvent.php b/framework/web/UserEvent.php
index 5167194d9b..1d2e5ae0a6 100644
--- a/framework/web/UserEvent.php
+++ b/framework/web/UserEvent.php
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class UserEvent extends Event
      */
     public $cookieBased;
     /**
-     * @var int $duration number of seconds that the user can remain in logged-in status.
+     * @var int number of seconds that the user can remain in logged-in status.
      * If 0, it means login till the user closes the browser or the session is manually destroyed.
      */
     public $duration;
diff --git a/framework/widgets/ActiveForm.php b/framework/widgets/ActiveForm.php
index 3d30474599..47a6d6b258 100644
--- a/framework/widgets/ActiveForm.php
+++ b/framework/widgets/ActiveForm.php
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ use yii\helpers\Json;
 class ActiveForm extends Widget
 {
     /**
-     * @var array|string $action the form action URL. This parameter will be processed by [[\yii\helpers\Url::to()]].
+     * @var array|string the form action URL. This parameter will be processed by [[\yii\helpers\Url::to()]].
      * @see method for specifying the HTTP method for this form.
      */
     public $action = '';