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As in English, Dutch personal pronouns still retain a distinction in case: the nominative (subjective), genitive (≈ possessive) and accusative/dative (objective). A distinction was once prescribed between the accusative 3rd person plural pronoun hen and the dative hun , but it was artificial and both forms are in practice variants of the same ...
The House of Representatives (Dutch: Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal [ˈtʋeːdə ˈkaːmər dɛr ˈstaːtə(ŋ) ɣeːnəˈraːl] ⓘ, literally "Second Chamber of the States General", or simply Tweede Kamer) is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate.
Gelderland (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ l d ər l ə n d /; Dutch: [ˈɣɛldərlɑnt] ⓘ), also known as Guelders (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ l d ər z /) [5] in English, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the centre-east of the country.
Unlike other cities Houten is built around a system of car-free public space combined with the infrastructure for slow traffic. The design principle of separating cycling and walking from car traffic has been pushed to the limit. Houten is unique in this. Cycling comfort and safety are extremely high (optimal), even by Dutch standards.
Amstelveen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɑmstəlˈveːn] ⓘ) is a municipality and city in the province of North Holland, Netherlands, with a population of 95,996 as of 2024. [4] It is a suburban part of the Amsterdam metropolitan area.
Deventer was probably founded around 768 AD by the English missionary Lebuinus, who built a wooden church on the east bank of the river IJssel.In January 772 AD the sack and burning of this church by a Saxon expedition was the cause for the first punitive war waged by Charlemagne to the Saxons, in which, in retribution, the Irminsul (the Saxon sacred tree, probably near modern Paderborn) was ...
Tongeren (Dutch: [ˈtɔŋərə(n)] ⓘ; French: Tongres; German: Tongern; Limburgish: Tóngere [ˈtʊŋəʀə]) [tone?] is a city and former municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg, in the southeastern corner of the Flemish region of Belgium.
The original village was founded in the middle of the 16th century as a peat colony from which it got its name. Veen is the Dutch word for fen and daal for dale.. The village was administratively part of two nearby towns, which were themselves part of two different provinces of the Dutch Republic.