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Sîlabas | Regras de divisão | Rrefixos e sufixos | Trema

Vogais longas | Vogais duplas | Vogais abiertas | Combinações das vogais | Vogais breves | Pronúncia | Vogais ante de ch | A letra e | E mudo | Duplo ee

Consoantes | Consoantes surdas e sonoras | Pronúncia irregular | Acentos e apóstrofo | Acento agudo | Apóstrofo | Mantendo vogais longas o brevas | Palavras com vogais longas | Palavras com vogais breves | Resumo

Artigos | Artigos definidos | Substantivos het | Substantivos de | Artigo indefinido | Como usar os artigos

Plural dos substantivos | Terminações comuns no plural | -s | -en e -s | Resumo | Outras terminações | Plurais irregulares

Diminutivos | Terminações dos diminutivos | -tje | -etje | -pje | -kje | Lista | Diminutivos irregulares | Resumo

Substantivos compostos | elementos de ligação | -e e -en | -s | -er | nenhuns

Regular verbs and the eight basic tenses | The verb stem | Getting the stem from an infinitive: Stem rule I | Stem rule II | Stem rule III | Stem rule IV

The Simple present tense | Using the Simple present tense | T and D verbs and 't kofschip [or pocketfish or 't fokschaap] | The Simple past tense | Using the Simple past tense | The past participle | The present perfect tense | Using the present perfect tense | The Pluperfect tense | Using the Pluperfect tense | The future tense | Using the future tense | The future perfect tense | The conditional tense | Using the conditional tense | The conditional perfect | Using the conditional perfect | Regular verbs: Summary

Other conjugations | The 'aan het' continuous | The perfect tense of the 'aan het' perfect | The 'te' continuous | The passive voice | The imperative | The verb as an adjective | The verb as an adjective: The gerund | The verb as an adjective: The verbable | The verb as a noun | Summary of the 'other' conjugations

Irregular verbs | Strong verbs (partly irregular verbs) | A long list of strong verbs | The 11 completely irregular verbs | Zijn | Hebben | Zullen & kunnen | Gaan, slaan, staan, zien, doen | Komen | Mogen

Auxiliary verbs | Independent verbs and auxiliary verbs | Past participle: hebben, zijn, worden, and raken | Do we use hebben or zijn for a past participle? | When does the past participle turn into an infinitive? | 'Te' + infinitive | 'Te' + continuous | 'Te' verbable | 'Te' durven, hebben, hoeven, komen | 'Te' and dat-verbs | 'Te' and om-verbs | 'Te': alvorens, door, in, plaats van, na, zonder | List of 'te' verbs | Bare infinitive | Modal verbs and the bare infinitive | Transitive auxiliary verbs and the bare infinitive | 'Aan het' + infinitive | Summary of auxiliary verbs

Compound verbs | Compound noun-verbs | Separable compound verbs | Conjugation of the present and past tense | How to get the past participle | Inseparable compound verbs | Separable or inseparable? | More on separable and inseparable verbs

Verb-preposition combinations: a list

Pronominal adverbs | The Dutch pronominal adverb | List of Dutch pronominal adverbs

Personal pronouns | Subject pronouns | Stressed and unstressed subject pronouns | 'Het is' and 'het zijn' | Object pronouns | Stressed and unstressed object pronouns | Them: 'hen' or 'hun'? | Colloquial pronouns | 'Het' and 'ze' turning into 'er'

Possessive pronouns | Possessive pronouns in action | Independent possessives | Independent possessives in action | Alternative possessive | Possessive names and nouns | Colloquial possessives |

Reflexive pronouns | Reciprocal pronouns | Interrogative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns | Dependent demonstratives | Independent demonstratives | Demonstratives turning into hier/daar | 'Dit is' and 'dit zijn' | Summary | More demonstratives | D(i)egene & datgene | Zo'n & zulke | Dusdanig & zodanig | Dezelfde & hetzelfde | Summary

Relative pronouns | Dat [that, which] | Die [that, which, who] | Wat [that, which] | Wie [who, whom] | Wiens & wier [whose]

An explanation in Word-format by Wim Voortman

The three parts of a main clause | Graphical overview of the main clause

The left side of the sentence | Finite form | Reflexive pronoun | Reduced indirect object | Reduced direct object

The middle part of a sentence | Er, hier & daar (EHD) | EHD: location | EHD: pronoun | Er: 'of it' or 'of them' | Time | Manner | Place | Direct object | Specific & non-specific direct objects | Direct object starting with an article | Direct object and possessive/demonstrative

The right side of a sentence | The other verbs | Prefix of a separable compound verb | If the separable verb is the finite verb.. | If the separable verb is not the finite verb.. | The miscellaneous box | EHD-postposition | Indirect object | Complement | Link verbs | Transitive link verbs | Place of direct object | Prepositional object

A funny word: er | Er: unstressed 'daar' | Er: 'het' or 'ze' | Er(van): 'of it'/'of them' | Extra er at the beginning of a sentence | Er as a provisional subject | Provisional subject: er or het? | More about the provisional subject | Het as a subject

Negating sentences | Examples of negating sentences | The use of 'geen in negating sentences

Questions [interrogative sentences] | Closed questions | Open questions | Interrogative words [pronouns, adverbs, ...] | Examples of interrogative sentences

Different types of clauses: the main, subordinating, and the relative clause | The subordinating clause | Subordinating clause and main clause compared | All verbs in a subordinating clause are moved to the very end | Subordinating conjunctions | Short subordinating clauses or 'shortcuts' | Other shortcuts | Examples of shortcut phrases

Tongbrekers and pronunciation drills | De geschiedenis van Harriëtte (children's story) | Dutch public holidays (information text) | Mijn hond (children's story) | Job application (conversation: phone call) | Sproetje (children's rhyme) | Jip en Janneke spelen samen (children's story) | The way to the station (conversation) | Repelsteeltje (fairy tale) | De Spin Sebastiaan (children's verse) | O, die moeilijke taal (verse) | Telefoongesprekje (phone conversation - colloquial) | Diefstal wuppie (news byte) | Luidruchtige egels (news byte) | Man vergeet kersverse bruid (news byte)

Books about the Dutch language | Books about Dutch culture & history | Books about Dutch art | Books about Dutch travel & tourism | Overview of the main Dutch newspapers | Overview of the main Dutch women's magazines | Overview of the main Dutch Men's magazines | Overview of Dutch TV magazines and an explanation of the Dutch 'omroep' | Dutch sports magazines [currently, only one magazines is listed here]

The actual move | Housing: how to find a place to live in the Netherlands? | Meeting people in the Netherlands | Staying in Holland as a tourist (< three months) | Settling in Holland (> three months) | Obtaining the Dutch citizenship | Phone in the Netherlands | Internet in the Netherlands | Television in the Netherlands | Dutch social security | Healthcare in the Netherlands | Unemployment and social security | Social benefit: who is eligible to apply? | Pension: state pensions and private pensions [page not finished yet!] | The Dutch tax system [page not finished yet!] | Dutch Insurances [page not finished yet!] | Work in the Netherlands: How to find a job? | Study in the Netherlands