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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4235 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 1 of 3 03 July 2014 at 5:27am | IP Logged |
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I use the DLI Dutch Cursus, and I notice that quite frequently they use "Neen" instead of
"Nee", probably even more than 50% of the time. What is the purpose of this spelling, because it looks to me to be even closer to the German "Nein". 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| miertje Diglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 4014 days ago 21 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 2 of 3 03 July 2014 at 12:01pm | IP Logged |
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It's old and formal spelling of the word "nee" and not commonly used anymore, but in some
dialects and especially in Flemish it's still used. I don't know if you use one or the other in different situations in Flemish, or how common it is since I'm not Flemish, but "neen" does sound like a firmer and more emphasised "nee". Edited by miertje on 03 July 2014 at 12:03pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4652 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 3 03 July 2014 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
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It's consistently used in Flanders, even in common speech. I would IM people from there
and they would freely type "neen". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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