By Bruce Donaldson
ISBN-10: 0203895320
ISBN-13: 9780203895320
Dutch: A accomplished Grammar is an entire reference advisor to fashionable Dutch grammar. This thoroughly up to date new version covers the hot spelling process brought in 1997 and the most recent reform of 2005. a brand new part covers modal debris.
Concentrating at the genuine styles of use in smooth Dutch via vigorous and obtainable descriptions of the language, the Grammar is an important reference resource for the learner of Dutch, without reference to point. it truly is excellent to be used in faculties, faculties, universities and grownup sessions of all kinds in addition to being necessary to these educating themselves.
The quantity is equipped to advertise an intensive knowing of Dutch grammar. It bargains a stimulating research of the complexities of the language, and offers complete and transparent reasons. all through, the emphasis is on Dutch as utilized by present-day native-speakers. an in depth index and numbered paragraphs supply readers with easy accessibility to the knowledge they require.
Features comprise:
• distinctive therapy of the typical grammatical buildings and elements of speech
• broad exemplification
• specific consciousness to parts of misunderstanding and trouble
• Dutch-English parallels highlighted in the course of the booklet
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Boerin ‘farmer’s wife’ – boerinnen, lerares ‘female teacher’ – leraressen. g. soiree ‘party’ – soirees. Also the Latin word dominee ‘reverend’ – dominees. 2 There is a group of very common nouns that have a short vowel in the singular but a long vowel in the plural These are nouns which one would expect to find under (f) above which do not double the consonant as the vowel is pronounced long. g. )’. 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 12111 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 41111 staf staff staven10 weg road wegen bad bath baden bedrag amount bedragen bevel order bevelen blad leaf of a book bladen11 dak roof daken dal valley dalen gat hole gaten gebed prayer gebeden gebod commandment geboden gebrek failing gebreken glas glass glazen graf grave graven12 hol cave holen lot lottery ticket loten pad path paden13 schot shot schoten14 slot lock, castle sloten spel game spelen15 vat barrel vaten16 verbod prohibition verboden verdrag treaty verdragen Plural of nouns Neuter 10 Staven is also the plural of de staaf ‘stick’.
The table and floor-rug were terribly expensive. 2 Other case forms of the demonstratives are found in standard expressions: (een) dezer dagen 32 one of these days1 1 In Dutch this expression refers to the near future, not to any point in the near or distant future as it does in English. Thus ‘one of these days’ is not really the correct translation of this expression, but rather ‘in the not too distant future’. 2, footnote 8). 3 In higher style ‘the former’ and ‘the latter’ can be rendered in Dutch by deze and an archaic demonstrative gene although eerstgenoemde and laatstgenoemde are more everyday expressions (all four words can take an -n ending when referring to plural persons): Cruyff en Merckx zijn door de sport beroemd geworden, deze als wielrenner, gene als voetballer.
More difficult for foreigners, but not for native-speakers, is knowing where a medial sound is required at all in such compounds, given that in English we simply put two nouns together, as the translations of the above examples illustrate. Thus why one says kinderbed ‘child’s bed’ and broekspijp ‘trouser leg’ is impossible to give consistent prescriptive rules for—it is merely a matter of sound and as the Dutch always know what sounds right, for them there is no problem here. e. either geluidhinder or geluidshinder ‘noise pollution’, either klimaatverandering or klimaatsverandering ‘climate change’, either voorbehoedmiddel or voorbehoedsmiddel ‘contraceptive’.
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