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  2. Dutch grammar - Wikipedia

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    As in English, Dutch personal pronouns still retain a distinction in case: the nominative (subjective), genitive (≈ possessive) and accusative/dative (objective). A distinction was once prescribed between the accusative 3rd person plural pronoun hen and the dative hun , but it was artificial and both forms are in practice variants of the same ...

  3. Gender in Dutch grammar - Wikipedia

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    In the Dutch language, the gender of a noun determines the articles, adjective forms and pronouns that are used in reference to that noun.Gender is a complicated topic in Dutch, because depending on the geographical area or each individual speaker, there are either three genders in a regular structure or two genders in a dichotomous structure (neuter/common with vestiges of a three-gender ...

  4. Archaic Dutch declension - Wikipedia

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    Because Dutch had many spelling reforms, some forms had different spellings in the past. The stem was formerly spelled een-regardless of the ending, so eenen, eener etc. The modern spelling, given in the table, are written according to the rules of modern Dutch orthography. The forms in brackets are shortened forms that were occasionally used.

  5. Britt Eerland - Wikipedia

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    Eerland in 2016. Britt Eerland (born 22 February 1994) is a Dutch table tennis player.. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics as part of the Dutch team in the women's team event [1] and is also competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics. she also made a comeback after not playing for 2 years and participated in the 2024 Singapore smash event.

  6. T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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    The T–V distinction is the contextual use of different pronouns that exists in some languages and serves to convey formality or familiarity. Its name comes from the Latin pronouns tu and vos. The distinction takes a number of forms and indicates varying levels of politeness, familiarity, courtesy, age or even insult toward the addressee.

  7. Dutch orthography - Wikipedia

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    Modern Dutch spelling still retains many of the details of the late Middle Dutch system. The distinction between checked and free vowels is important in Dutch spelling. A checked vowel is one that is followed by a consonant in the same syllable (the syllable is closed) while a free vowel ends the syllable (the syllable is open).

  8. Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender

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    In Dutch, nouns were traditionally masculine, feminine or neuter, but the distinction between masculine and feminine nouns has become blurred as both use the article de (as opposed to het for neuter words). This has led to the rise of a partial common gender. However, personal pronouns remain gendered (masculine hij versus feminine zij).

  9. List of LGBT Summer Olympians (2004–2020) - Wikipedia

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    Table tennis: 2012, 2016, 2020: Widely out (as queer) prior to the 2020 Games. [39] Publicly came out as transgender in 2022. [141] Kim Lammers Δ Netherlands: Hockey: 2012: Came out in the run-up to the 2012 Games, reportedly making the Dutch women's hockey team the most out. [140] Martha McCabe Canada: Swimming: 2012, 2016 [142] Theresa ...