Please anyone I still do not have an answer for the message below. Would anyone please be so kind as to answer it? thanks Evely ... don't ... ' ... in:...
... Hi Evely, You are on the right track with these words, but I think you got confused by adding in ontwikkeling. zonderling - can mean singular, peculiar...
HI all, I am still a bit fuzzy on how to create "should have" and "shouldn't have" phrases in Dutch. From those who understood and contributed to this...
Leuke vraag / nice question. Make a distinction: als het woord met -ing (without the 'l') afgeleid is van een werkwoord (if derived from a verb) geeft het de...
Hear, hear, Lisa, I still have trouble with this, and with "might have" as well. I keep getting muddled up in the conjugation and placement of the verbs,...
... Hopefully I can help clear up the confusion a little. As I saw it the problem was that we were looking at two different types of words that just happened...
Hoi groep, Hier hebben jullie een 'tonguetwister' in het Nederlands. Het is nummer 26 op de pagina http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/nl.htm, door Ashley...
Hi, Doesn't it use "zou hebben gedaan" or maybe even "zou hebben moeten doen"? Or maybe that's complicating things more than it needs to be. Glen ... [Non-text...
Hi, one small correction: aandrijven means "propel", I don't think 'propulse' is a word... anyone? Back to the suffixes, is 'oplossen' a seperable verb? Glen ...
Hoi groep, het antwoord is: Hi folks, the answer is: When saws (tools) saw (other) saws saw (yet other) saws, ( the first) saws saw (the other) saws saw the...
Hi Glen, No it doesn't look like oplossen is a seperable verb. Or to be more precise, it looks like it should be, but it isn't. Just looking at the preceding...
... You write USA. Lots more things are capitalized in English than in Dutch. -- b'Shalom, Havik "The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds...
... Beware of false friends: English meaning = Nederlands betekenis. English opinion = Nederlands mening, opinie. English to mean = Nederlands betekenen;...
... Present: Ik eet Simple past: Ik at Perfect: Ik heb gegeten. Now applying that to a more complicated verbal construction: "moeten blijven" = "must stay". Ik...
Thanks, Ruud- I wouldn't have remembered 'betekenis', I was considering 'bedoeling'. So I should have said "Wat is the betekenis?" then? Glen ... [Non-text...
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Martin W. van Arkel
arkelmw@...
Nov 1, 2001 10:31 pm
... Basically, when it is geographical, you start with a capital. E.g. Lake Erie, Toronto, Quebec, Canada. Martin...
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Martin W. van Arkel
arkelmw@...
Nov 2, 2001 12:17 am
... "Het is op te lossen", is a normal use of the verb. :) ( It is solvable ) Martin...
Would someone be able to please tell me the meaning of "Ga zo door!" ? It was in a sentence reading, "Ga zo door!" zeggen we in Nederland. It appears to be an...
"Ga zo door" I would translate it like: Ik zou het zo vertalen: "Just continue like this" or/of "go ahead as you did before" Groetjes Alfons ... Von: lakota...
Something like "Carry on (doing what you're doing)" ? ... From: "Alfons Schlofer" <alfons.schlofer@...> To: <DUTCH-ENGLISH-STUDY-GROUP@yahoogroups.com> ...
Actually, I think it's equivalent to "carry on" in the colloquial sense of "continue as you are/have been". Jeannine ... From: "lakota" <lakota85usa@...> ...
... It is. Olie lost niet op in water. Dit probleem kan ik niet oplossen. Dat los ik niet zomaar even op. Het andere probleem was al opgelost. Or is that not...
... Yes. "Wat is de betekenis" = "What is the meaning". The meaning of "bedoeling" is different yet again: "Wat is de bedoeling?" = "What is the idea behind...
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phanie
stephanie.decool@...
Nov 2, 2001 5:20 pm
Hi every body! I don't understand the difference between de and het. Could anyone help me? Thanks, and nice day to you Phanie [Non-text portions of this...
de and het are both words for the de is used for common nouns and het is for neuter nouns you have to learn the gender with the noun but most nouns are de ...
Phanie, Check the DATABASE section. I think there is a note in there regarding "de/het" It will give you the message number from the archive that has the...
Just to add to this... you always use "de" with pural nouns and "het" with nouns ending in "je" de paarden het hondje Groetjes, Clarity ... From: "troy zeiner"...
