Dutch: An Essential Grammar (Essential Grammars Series)
Dutch: 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.
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Dutch: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of current Dutch with an emphasis on how the language is currently used in the Netherlands and Belgium. New to this eighth edition is an improved pronunciation guide, using the International Phonetic Alphabet, as well as recent additions to the Dutch lexicon. Ideal for independent study or for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types, Dutch grammar is reinforced by regular summary sections, practice sentences and exercises. Features include a detailed contents list, clearly indicated word stress to assist pronunciation, a separate section providing answers to translation exercises and Dutch-English/English-Dutch glossaries.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Ch. 1Pronunciation5Ch. 2Spelling14Ch. 3The plural21Ch. 4Articles and demonstratives27Ch. 5Personal pronouns and the verb35Ch. 6The verb; hebben and zijn and the imperative45Ch. 7Adjectives, adverbs, comparison54Ch. 8Object and reflexive pronouns66Ch. 9Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns79Ch. 10Numbers and dates, currency and measurement88Ch. 11The past tense: weak verbs100Ch. 12The past tense: strong verbs108Ch. 13Some irregular verbs, the past perfect tense118Ch. 14Modal auxiliaries, verbs plus infinitive127Ch. 15The future, the present participle and the infinitive138Ch. 16Colloquial speech and writing148Ch. 17Separable and inseparable prefixes159Ch. 18Conjunctions and relative pronouns168Ch. 19Word order: the position in the sentence179Ch. 20The word er, prepositional compounds190Ch. 21Diminutives201Ch. 22The passive voice207Ch. 23Telling the time217Ch. 24Aspect and idiomatic usages of some common verbs225Ch. 25Word formation and derivation234Ch. 26Three stories243Ch. 27Further learning256Key to the exercises263A list of the most useful strong and irregular verbs282Dutch-English vocabulary288English-Dutch vocabulary316Index341
