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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 ...
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 ...
Wageningen is situated on the north bank of the Nederrijn (the Dutch portion of the Lower Rhine) part of the Gelderse Valley [fy; li; nds-nl; nl; zea] and the Veluwe, of which the southwest hill is called the Wageningse Berg.
"Dernière danse" (English: "Last dance") is a song recorded by French singer-songwriter Indila. It served as the first single from her debut album, Mini World. Less than ten years after its release, on 19 May 2023, it became the first French-language song to exceed one billion views on YouTube.
On 14 February 2018 during a speech commemorating Ash Wednesday in Demmin, Merkel said "ich bin überzeugt, wir schaffen das" (English: "I am convinced that we can do it"), in response to the slow formation of a new government. This was the first time Merkel had publicly used the phrase since 2016.
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.