Basic Dutch

Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This second edition contains new chapters on spelling, pronunciation, and indirect speech, as well as revised and additional exercises with lists of new vocabulary.

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Jenneke A. Oosterhoff is Senior Lecturer in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic, and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, USA.

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Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This second edition contains new chapters on spelling, pronunciation, and indirect speech, as well as revised and additional exercises with lists of new vocabulary.

Inhalt

Preface

1 Spelling in Dutch

2 Subject pronouns

3 Verb conjugation in the present tense

4 Articles and nouns

5 Object pronouns

6 Numbers and measures

7 The plural of nouns

8 Questions and question words

9 Possessive pronouns

10 Modal auxiliary verbs

11 Basic word order

12 Telling the time

13 Negatives I

14 Demonstrative pronouns

15 Adjective endings

16 The adjective in comparison

17 Adverbs

18 Separable and inseparable verbs

19 The imperative

20 The present perfect tense

21 The simple past tense

22 Reflexive verbs

23 The diminutive

24 The adverb er

25 Prepositions

26 Infinitive constructions

27 Word order in subordinated clauses

28 Relative clauses

29 Indirect speech

30 Negatives II

31 Punctuation

Appendix I: Pronunciation

Appendix II: Overview of pronouns

Appendix III: Strong and irregular verbs

Key to exercises

Index