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Six verbs have this type of conjugation. Note that their English equivalents often have similar changes. brengen, bracht/brachten, gebracht ("to bring"). denken, dacht/dachten, gedacht ("to think"). dunken, docht/dochten, gedocht ("to seem, to be considered"). The irregular past is rare and archaic, the regular weak dunkte is more common.
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The pronoun jij/je only calls for the verb to end in -t if it precedes the verb, and if the verb is in the present simple or present perfect indicative. Modal verbs and the future/conditional auxiliary zullen allow forms with and without -t (but the subject pronoun must still precede the verb for the -t form to appear). Jij gaat naar school.
Modal verbs are among the few verbs which have irregular conjugation in the present tense. A special feature of Dutch modal verbs not present in English is that speakers tend to omit the infinitive verb gaan ("go"), komen ("come"), and similar verbs when a modal verb is finite and there is a preposition. Ik wil niet naar school.
West Frisian verbs inflect for person, number, tense, and mood. There are only two inflected tenses, present and past. Other tenses are formed using auxiliary and modal verbs. There are also only two moods, indicative and imperative, with the imperative only being used in the second person. There are 3 groups of verbs: weak, strong and
The ' t kofschip (Dutch pronunciation: [ət ˈkɔfsxɪp], the merchant-ship), ' t fokschaap (the breeding sheep), also often referred to as kofschiptaxi or soft ketchup (among foreign language learners), [1] rule is a mnemonic that determines the endings of a regular Dutch verb in the past indicative/subjunctive and the ending of the past participle.
It gives all the correct spellings for each Dutch verb for all moods, tenses, persons and numbers. It presents a simple solution for the most notorious spelling problem in Dutch, i.e. how to spell verbs ending in /t/, which is also known as the ‘DT rule’. DT-Manie Booklet p.3. 1992.
Perfective verbs, whether derived or basic, can be made imperfective with a suffix. [4]: p84 Each aspect has a past form and a non-past form. The non-past verb forms are conjugated by person/number, while the past verb forms are conjugated by gender/number. The present tense is indicated with the non-past imperfective form.