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Summary
"Dutch: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of current Dutch." "This new edition presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, supported throughout by diagrams and lively examples. An improved pronunciation guide using the International Phonetic Alp... Full description
- Ch. 1. Pronunciation
- Ch. 2. Spelling
- Ch. 3. The plural
- Ch. 4. Articles and demonstratives
- Ch. 5. Personal pronouns and the verb
- Ch. 6. The verb; hebben and zijn and the imperative
- Ch. 7. Adjectives, adverbs, comparison
- Ch. 8. Object and reflexive pronouns
- Ch. 9. Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns
- Ch. 10. Numbers and dates, currency and measurement
- Ch. 11. The past tense: weak verbs
- Ch. 12. The past tense: strong verbs
- Ch. 13. Some irregular verbs, the past perfect tense
- Ch. 14. Modal auxiliaries, verbs plus infinitive
- Ch. 15. The future, the present participle and the infinitive
- Ch. 16. Colloquial speech and writing
- Ch. 17. Separable and inseparable prefixes
- Ch. 18. Conjunctions and relative pronouns
- Ch. 19. Word order: the position in the sentence
- Ch. 20. The word er, prepositional compounds
- Ch. 21. Diminutives
- Ch. 22. The passive voice
- Ch. 23. Telling the time
- Ch. 24. Aspect and idiomatic usages of some common verbs
- Ch. 25. Word formation and derivation
- Ch. 26. Three stories
- Ch. 27. Further learning.