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by signormalatesta
Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:58 am
Forum: Verbs
Topic: should have...
Replies: 5
Views: 9662

Re: should have...

Thanks to you both for your replies!
by signormalatesta
Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:44 am
Forum: Verbs
Topic: should have...
Replies: 5
Views: 9662

should have...

Hoi alle! My Dutch teacher and I were reading one of Aesop's fables in Dutch the other day, and this sentence occurred at the end as the dénouement of the story, just before the moral was given: In plaats van eerst een liedje te spelen had hij beter het geitje onmiddellijk opgegeten which seems to m...
by signormalatesta
Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:22 am
Forum: Verbs
Topic: Infinitive in pluperfect/perfect conditional construction
Replies: 2
Views: 7009

Infinitive in pluperfect/perfect conditional construction

My Dutch teacher and I are reading a short story by Guy de Maupassant translated from French into Dutch at the moment. We read this sentence the other day: Maar dat lag natuurlijk aan het feit dat hij diplomaat was, en zonder twijfel heel wat dames had helpen uit- en aankleden. This caused no troubl...