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Dutch verbs conjugate for tense in present and past, and for mood in indicative, subjunctive and imperative. The subjunctive mood in Dutch is archaic or formal, and is rarely used. There are two grammatical numbers (singular and plural) and three grammatical persons .
Modal verbs are among the few verbs which have irregular conjugation in the present tense. A special feature of Dutch modal verbs not present in English is that speakers tend to omit the infinitive verb gaan ("go"), komen ("come"), and similar verbs when a modal verb is finite and there is a preposition. Ik wil niet naar school.
The pronoun jij/je only calls for the verb to end in -t if it precedes the verb, and if the verb is in the present simple or present perfect indicative. Modal verbs and the future/conditional auxiliary zullen allow forms with and without -t (but the subject pronoun must still precede the verb for the -t form to appear). Jij gaat naar school.
The ' t kofschip (Dutch pronunciation: [ət ˈkɔfsxɪp], the merchant-ship), ' t fokschaap (the breeding sheep), also often referred to as kofschiptaxi or soft ketchup (among foreign language learners), [1] rule is a mnemonic that determines the endings of a regular Dutch verb in the past indicative/subjunctive and the ending of the past participle.
West Frisian verbs inflect for person, number, tense, and mood. There are only two inflected tenses, present and past. Other tenses are formed using auxiliary and modal verbs. There are also only two moods, indicative and imperative, with the imperative only being used in the second person. There are 3 groups of verbs: weak, strong and
To help memorise when to write d and when t , Dutch students are taught the rule "'t kofschip is met thee beladen" ("the merchant ship is loaded with tea"). If the verb stem in the infinitive ends with one of the consonants of "'t kofschip" ( -t, -k, -f, -s, -ch, -p ), the past tense dental is a - t -; otherwise, it is a - d -.
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On the other hand, verbs with an unstressed prefix are not separable: voorkómen becomes voorkóm in the first-person singular present, and voorkómen in the past participle, without the past participle prefix ge-. Dutch, like other Germanic languages, has a strong stress accent and uses stress timing because of its relatively complex syllable ...