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I forgot about that detail... ok, thank you!

Ok, but that puts you in the subject role instead of the language... that's not a problem?

Ok, I know Old Skourene doesn't really have a copula and in many cases you can do without it. I understand the example that "that is amusing" should be said as "that amuses me". I can also see that you'd say "I am a baker" would best be expressed as "I bake", for example. But what if you want to say...

Isn't that what is called ablaut? Or am I completely wrong here? Completely. Hopefully, this Wikipedia article should help clarify matters. To me, umlaut is the "-diacritic. It can be that, but that is not its only--or, indeed, even its primary--meaning. Alright. (As you have guessed,) I didn't kno...

How's your historical linguistics? zhenlin had some questions about i-umlaut and while I remember that it works differently in Dutch and German, I can't remember exactly how differently. Dutch has no i-umlaut. Yes, it does; all West Germanic languages do. "Umlaut" is the name for both a kind of pho...

How's your historical linguistics? zhenlin had some questions about i-umlaut and while I remember that it works differently in Dutch and German, I can't remember exactly how differently. Dutch has no i-umlaut. The Dutch ? is called "i met trema". I will try to explain how it works. Let's take the D...

Well, here's my two eurocents. I'm a bit puzzled at your verb thingy, MUBA. Wouldn't it make more sense to have the onvoltooid tegenwoordig(e tijd) be "ik sla", the onvoltooid verleden (tijd) "ik sloeg", and stuff like that, in stead of "ik ben slaande" en "ik was slaande"? They sound very unnatura...

2) I do not fully understand this question. You are asking why "word" is present and "werd" past? If so, I don't know the answer. But somehow I think you mean something slightly different. You have the question correct. In German, the present is "werd-" and the past is "ward-" or "wurde-". But in D...

Where did "jullie" come from? Middle Dutch je 'you' + lie(den) 'people'. je itself was a dialectal/colloquial form of the 2nd person plural personal pronoun, longer form jij . Clearly related to older English ye . (Source: B.C. Donaldson: Dutch - A linguistic history of Holland and Belgium , p.171)...

1. What conditions does something have to fulfil in order to be called gezellig ? When can I use this word and when not? It varies. A typical example of "gezelligheid" (gezelligness) is, I think, when you're with a group of friends, on holiday somewhere. It's night. You guys made a camp fire. One o...

Very well. Want a throat sweet? :P I'm just joking.... I don't know enough about Dutch to know what to ask. What Tenses, Aspects, Moods and Persons do Dutch verbs mark? Tenses and aspects Ok, here I go. I just try to translate the English names literally to English. Onvoltooid Tegenwoordig (present...

Once again, in one of my regular visits to #almea, Dutch seems to be a slightly popular language.

So here I present: The Dutch Topic!
Any questions about this Germanic language? Ask, and I will answer if I can.

brandrinn wrote:isn't that just a tense? how is aorist an aspect, if this is true?

Dunno, to be hosest. The dictionary says "tijd van het werkwoord".

Well.
Werkwoord - verb
het - the
van - of
tijd - literally: time. But since verbs don't have time, I think it should be translated as tense.

http://www.vandale.nl (Van Dale is the most populair Dutch dictionary): ao?ris?tus (de ~ (m.), -ti) 1 [taalk.] tijd van het werkwoord die de handeling voorstelt als plaatshebbend in het verleden, maar zonder gedachte aan voltooiing of voortduring Rougly translated (I'm not sure if I translated it co...