Re: Grammatical Summary of Kemata

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Ja, de leraars zijn goed.
I would say "leraren"... "leraars" is sloppy, and certainly not regular. I
think "-s" plural forms occur only after unstressed -el, -er, -en (where /e/
is pronounced  [@]) and vowels. (tafel-tafels, deken-dekens, meter-meters,
collega-collega's but tabel-tabellen, with stress on the second syllable).
People have a tendency to put -s behind anything which ends in a vowel
plus -n, -r, -l, especially if the last syllable is unstressed, but that is
not the rule (yet).

> Hoe denk je dat ik na maar vier weken zoveel Nederlands ken? :)))
But you still lack the dutch habit of putting meaningless interjections into
your writing. I would have said:

"Hoe denk je dat ik na nog maar vier weken al zoveel Nederlands kan?"

Not that "nog" and "al"  really add anything to the meaning, but I still
think they should be there ;-)

> The teacher gave us an example with VOORstellen vs. voorSTELlen I
> think, but I can't remember the meaning of voorSTELlen... (or was it
voordenken?)

Neither can I... another nice one which I misread yesterday:

OVERdrijven (to come floating over)
E.g. "Toen we in de duikboot zaten, kwam er een grote ijsberg overdrijven"
(As we were in the submarine, a big iceberg came floating over)

overDRIJVEN (exaggerate)

Usually with such verbs, the one with the stress on the prefix should be
taken literally.

Maarten

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