Dutch: An Essential GrammarDutch: An Essential Grammar shows, step by step, how the language is constructed. It presents a lively and accessible description of the language using plenty of relevant examples. Particular attention is paid to areas of difficulty for English speakers. With a range of suporting exercises and lavish use of illustration, this is the ideal first grammar for the Dutch learner. |
Contents
Pronunciation | 5 |
Spelling | 14 |
The plural | 21 |
Contents | 27 |
6 | 33 |
6 | 39 |
The verb hebben and zijn | 45 |
Adjectives adverbs comparison | 54 |
Colloquial speech and writing | 148 |
Separable and inseparable prefixes | 159 |
Conjunctions and relative pronouns | 168 |
the position in | 179 |
3 | 186 |
4 Exercises | 187 |
Diminutives | 201 |
The passive voice | 207 |
vi | 61 |
Object and reflexive pronouns 66 Contents | 66 |
Possessive adjectives and possessive | 79 |
Numbers and dates currency | 88 |
weak verbs | 100 |
Contents | 108 |
5 | 114 |
Modal auxiliaries verbs plus infinitive | 127 |
The future the present participle | 138 |
viii | 144 |
Telling the time | 217 |
Aspect and idiomatic usages of some Contents | 225 |
Word formation and derivation | 234 |
Three stories | 243 |
Further learning | 256 |
Key to the exercises | 263 |
A list of the most useful strong and irregular verbs | 279 |
DutchEnglish vocabulary | 288 |
EnglishDutch vocabulary | 316 |
Other editions - View all
Dutch: An Essential Grammar William Z. Shetter,Inge Van der Cruysse-Van Antwerpen Limited preview - 2002 |
Dutch: An Essential Grammar William Z. Shetter,Inge Van der Cruysse-Van Antwerpen No preview available - 2002 |
Dutch: An Essential Grammar William Z. Shetter,Inge Van der Cruysse-Van Antwerpen No preview available - 2002 |
Common terms and phrases
adjective adjectives adverb auto België Belgium book call called change Chapter Chapter 27 clause coffee common conjugated conjunctions consonant construction day after tomorrow different Dutch language Dutch vocabulary ending eten euro euros Exercises female fiets find first Flanders following food form frites gender gisteren give goed Gogh museum going grammar half help hour house infinitive judo jullie Keukenhof know little long look maken meaning means medication Meneer Mieke mobile phone morning Netherlands neuter nice noun number object onze order passive past participle people perfect Piet plural position Practice text preposition present pronounced pronouns questions read reflexive Remco Campert right schaatsen sentence sentences separable short simple past singular sound speakers spelling spoken stressed strong verbs subject syllable tennis think three time today tomorrow train turn unstressed used usually verb vowel Wadlopen work written yesterday zitten