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Deze jas is het duurst(e). ("This coat is (the) most expensive") Dit huis is het grootst(e). ("This house is (the) biggest.") Onze auto rijdt het hardst(e) van allemaal. ("Our car drives (the) fastest of all.") The first sentence meaning "This coat is the most expensive" has the same meaning as the first sentence further above.
In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin. [1] In many cases the loanword has assumed a meaning substantially different from its Dutch forebear. Some English words have been borrowed directly from Dutch.
The countries that comprise the region called the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) all have comparatively the same toponymy.Place names with Neder, Nieder, Nedre, Nether, Lage(r) or Low(er) (in Germanic languages) and Bas or Inferior (in Romance languages) are in use in low-lying places all over Europe.
Van Duin in his first own television show Een avondje teevee met André in 1969. In 1962, fifteen-year-old Van Duin sent in several applications to the different public broadcasters in which he described his work and ambitions. [2] Dear sirs, With this, I announce to you, that I am 15 years of age and that it is my ideal to become conferencier ...
Ik wil het nú! I want it now! Dat is héél mooi. That is very nice. Kán jij dat? Can you (are you able to) do that? Tóé nou! Come on! Die fiets is niet óúd, hij is níéuw! That bike is not old, it is new! Hij heeft een boek. He has a book. Hij heeft één boek. He has one book. Ik zal voor jou opstaan. I will get up for you. Ik zal ...
The word can also refer to a moody, cranky person. hel: Hel ("hell") is not typically used in Dutch profanity. The word can be seen in some expressions, including "loop naar de hel" (literally: "walk to hell", analogous to "go to hell"), "hels karwei" ("hellish chore"), and the archaic helleveeg ("evil woman from hell"). Jezus Christus
Der is commonly used in order to avoid reduplication of van, e.g. het merendeel der gedichten van de auteur instead of het merendeel van de gedichten van de auteur ("the bulk of the author's poems"). There is also a genitive form for the pronoun die/dat ("that [one], those [ones]"), namely diens for masculine and neuter singulars (occurrences ...
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 ).