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Dutch word order is underlyingly SOV (subject–object–verb). There is an additional rule called V2 in main clauses, which moves the finite (inflected for subject) verb into the second position in the sentence.
The past tense of the passive voice in Afrikaans uses is, the present tense of wees instead of word, hence dit word geskryf ("it is written") becomes dit is geskryf ("it was/has been written"). [66] In Dutch, the passive voice can be constructed by both zijn and worden , hence het is/wordt geschreven , and het was/werd geschreven .
Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger M. (2003), The Phonetics of English and Dutch, Fifth Revised Edition (PDF), ISBN 9004103406 Gussenhoven, Carlos (1999), "Dutch" , Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet , Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 74– 77, ISBN 0-521 ...
Reverso has been active since 1998, with the aim of providing online translation and linguistic tools to corporate and mass markets. [3] [4]In 2013 it released Reverso Context, a bilingual dictionary tool based on big data and machine learning algorithms.
Final devoicing is not indicated in Dutch spelling; words are usually spelled according to the historically original consonant. Therefore, a word may be written with a letter for a voiced consonant at the end of a word but still be pronounced with a voiceless consonant: heb /ɦɛp/ "(I) have" but hebben /ˈɦɛbə(n)/ "to have"
3 metres WNT. The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (WNT; lit. ' Dictionary of the Dutch language ') is a dictionary of the Dutch language.It contains between 350,000 and 400,000 entries describing Dutch words from 1500 to 1976.
The Word list of the Dutch language (Dutch: Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal [ˈʋoːrdə(n)ˌlɛist ˈneːdərlɑntsə ˈtaːl]) is a spelling dictionary of the Dutch language (Dutch orthography). It is officially established by the Dutch Language Union ( Nederlandse Taalunie ).
An oddity of West Flemings (and to a lesser extent, East Flemings) is that, when they speak AN, their pronunciation of the "soft g" sound (the voiced velar fricative) is almost identical to that of the "h" sound (the voiced glottal fricative), thus, the words held (hero) and geld (money) sound nearly the same, except that the latter word has a ...