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As of February 2025, the Dutch Wikipedia is the sixth-largest Wikipedia edition, with 2,180,004 articles. It was the fourth Wikipedia edition to exceed one million articles, after the English, German, and French editions. Many articles however have been created by bots and are only a few lines of length, the article depth is very low.
This spelling was established by the linguists Matthias de Vries and L.A. te Winkel. In 1863 Te Winkel published the results in De grondbeginselen der Nederlandsche spelling. Ontwerp der spelling voor het aanstaande Nederlandsch Woordenboek (The foundations of Dutch spelling. Project for the spelling of the forthcoming Dutch Dictionary).
Dit is het vieste toilet dat ik ooit heb gezien. ("This is the dirtiest toilet I've ever seen.", alternatively Dit is het meest vieze toilet ) Because it is most often used to distinguish one particular thing from all others, the superlative is generally accompanied by a definite article.
A pass in Programme 2 can fulfil the language requirement for enrollment in college or university in the Netherlands. According to the Dutch nationality law and Integration law for immigrants to the Netherlands , a pass in Programme 1 can exempt candidates from taking the language test in the process of immigration and naturalisation.
Marijke van der Wal, Geschiedenis van het Nederlands, Utrecht: Het Spectrum, 1994. Nicoline van der Sijs, Taal als mensenwerk. Het ontstaan van het ABN, Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers, 2004. Anneke Nunn, Dutch Orthography: A Systematic Investigation of the Spelling of Dutch Words, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Doctoral dissertation, 1998.
It is spoken daily by approximately 62% [2]: 39–40 of the population of Twente, a region in the eastern Dutch province of Overijssel bordering on Germany. Tweants is part of the larger Low Saxon dialect continuum , spreading from the Veluwe region in the middle of the Netherlands to the German-Polish border.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II (Dutch: Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog) is the standard reference on the history of the Netherlands during World War II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The series was written by Loe de Jong (1914–2005), director of the Dutch Institute for War Documentation ( Nederlands Instituut voor ...
Dutch, like English, has a continuous tense using the verb zijn ("to be") with aan het ("on the") and the infinitive, hence "I am reading" is ik ben aan het lezen, which may be expressed periphrastically in Afrikaans as ek is besig om te lees (literally "I am busy of to read") or "I am busy reading". [68]