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While Afrikaans uses -e as the plural of most nouns, similar to Dutch -en, it also uses the -s ending where Dutch would use -en, hence the plural of seun ("son") being seuns, in contrast to Dutch, in which the plural of zoon is zonen, zoons being used as a plural in eighteenth century Dutch. [77] The plural zoons in Dutch is still common.
The plural is formed by addition of -en (pronounced /ən/ or /ə/) or -s, with the usual spelling changes in the case of the former. Which of the two is used is somewhat unpredictable, although some general rules can be given: Single-syllable words, which are common in Dutch, normally use -en: deur "door" → deuren; boot "boat" → boten
Like English, Dutch has generalised the dative over the accusative case for all pronouns, e.g. NL ' me ', ' je ', EN 'me', 'you', vs. DE ' mich '/' mir ' ' dich '/' dir '. There is one exception: the standard language prescribes that in the third person plural, hen is to be used for the direct object, and hun for the indirect object.
The Dutch Wikipedia (Dutch: Nederlandstalige Wikipedia) is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was founded on 19 June 2001. As of February 2025, the Dutch Wikipedia is the sixth-largest Wikipedia edition, with 2,178,690 articles. It was the fo
The Netherlands has a diverse linguistic landscape, including minority languages, regional languages, and dialects.
c, qu, x, y are sometimes adapted to k, kw, ks, i , but c, x, y (and rarely qu ) are usually retained. Greek letters φ, ῥ become f, r , not ph, rh , but θ usually becomes th (except before a consonant, after f, ch and word finally). - eon, ion, yon - in French loanwords are written with a single n ( mayonaise ) except when a schwa follows ...
English is compulsory at all levels of the Dutch secondary education system: . Many elementary schools teach English in the upper grades.; Pupils must score at least a 5.5/10 for English Language and Literature at the high school finals to be able to graduate, which equals to a A2 level at the lowest (At VMBO high school level), [9] and a B2 to C1 level at the highest (At VWO high school level).
Staatsexamen Nederlands als tweede taal (State Exams Dutch as a Second Language [1] or State Examination of Dutch as a Second Language), often abbreviated as Staatsexamen NT2, is a standardised examination of Dutch language for those who are not native speakers of Dutch.