Re: Grammatical Summary of Kemata

En réponse à Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>:

>
> I would say "leraren"... "leraars" is sloppy, and certainly not regular.
Yet I've seen it more than once. But I agree, it was a mistake from me.

> 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).
Then explain aardappels/aardappel(l)en (not sure). I've seen both with the same
frequency, including in my learning book!

>
> > 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 ;-)
>
I know! This is the most difficult thing in Dutch! The Dutch husband of one of
my fellow students call them "Hagelslagwoorden" because you can sprinkle them
everywhere in your sentences :))) . But how can you learn to add meaningless
words? (which can be meaningless, but you can't add any of them anywhere!)

Oh well, I suppose that after some decades of practice I'll be able to do that
to :))) . And I'm beginning to discern patterns to the adding of those little
words. The problem being that I cannot process those patterns in real time. SO
unfortunately my speech stays a little blank...

Christophe.

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