By William Z. Shetter
First variation This grammar arose from the necessity for a concise presentation of the necessities of the Dutch language which may be used either for self sustaining domestic research and in teams or periods less than formal guideline. With the previous objective in brain, the reasons were made as self-explanatory as attainable, and a whole key to the workouts has been supplied in an appendix. within the curiosity of simplicity and straightforwardness of reference and assessment, every one grammatical subject is mentioned as totally as attainable in a single position, and an attempt has been made to incorporate just one significant grammatical characteristic in anybody bankruptcy. yet given that an excellent origin can extra successfully be accomplished via research less than expert supervision or with a local speaker of the language, the presentation has additionally been made adapt in a position to this kind of research. The short fill-in routines in each one lesson offer a version for any quantity of drill, and the dialogues and readings integrated at abnormal durations in addition to the assessment selec tions put after each few chapters offers the mandatory extra perform in supervised guide. aid may still at the least be sought with the pronunciation, the crucial stumbling-block within the approach of both autonomous or supervised study.
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10. Dit brood is duur, maar broodjes zijn nog duurder. II. Het duurdere brood is niet altijd het beste. 12. Die andere bloemen zijn de mooiste. 13. Wordt de soep niet te dik? Nee, hoe dikker hoe beter. 14. Dat is niets nieuws. 15. Hij is een belangrijk man. ja, hij is een heel bekend musicus. 16. Voor het huis zien wij veel hoge bomen. 17. Die bomen hebben in de zomer groene bladeren en in de winter geen bladeren. 18. In de herfst hebben ze gele en rode bladeren. 19. Hij heet Theunisse, of iets dergelijks.
18. We meet (each other) in the post office. 55 10 Possessive and interrogative pronouns I. THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS are: (singular) (plural) mijn, m'n my ons/onze our jouw,je your jullie,je your zijn, z'n his, its hun, (d'r) their haar, d'r her your uw As is the case with all the other pronouns, non-emphatic forms are used in everyday speech and occasionally written. Jouw is used only for special emphasis, the usual form even in writing being je. Note the spelling difference betweenjou andjouw (object and possessive) and uand uw.
Onder anderen er is, er zi}n destadin de brugover in the evening (every evening) in the afternoon in the morning among others there is, there are into the city over the bridge In a Dutch declarative sentence, the main conjugated verb must stand second. If anything but the subject of the verb - usually an adverb or phrase - comes first in the sentence, the order of subject and verb is reversed so that the verb may stand in second place. Note carefully in the following readings how this important rule is illustrated.