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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4287 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 505 of 509 15 June 2015 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
All of them are wrong. You are using the VTT, or voltooid tegenwoordige tijd, which requires the voltooid deelwoord, not the verleden tijd (woonde), so it has to end with "gewoond". "Want" gives a reason, so that sentence makes no sense, but if you are asking the period of time that the person started to live there, I would just use simply, "Sinds wanneer heb je daar gewoond?". It can also use "er" instead if both interlocutors know where the location is, as "daar" has slightly more emphasis. If the person still lives there in the present, "Sinds wanneer woon je daar?" sounds better. Edited by 1e4e6 on 15 June 2015 at 12:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 506 of 509 15 June 2015 at 1:16am | IP Logged | ||
Whoops! The issue was the first part of the sentence and I forget to get the "gewoond" right. So let me try again with this version: Hoe lang heb je daar gewoond? Want hoe lang heb je daar gewoond? Voor hoe lang heb je daar gewoond? Sinds hoe lang heb je daar gewoond? According to the Internet usage, all these forms are frequently used (Hoe lang, Want hoe lang, Voor hoe lang, Sinds hoe lang) with "Want hoe lang" the least frequent. "Want" in this case doesn't mean "because" but "since", so I do think it makes sense. The following sentence was asked by the Dutch moderator of 'Blauw Bloed" in June. "Want hoe lang woont u al in Canada?" during the recent visit of Willem-Alexander and Maxima. Edited by tommus on 15 June 2015 at 1:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4287 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 507 of 509 15 June 2015 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||
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You mean like this?
Hoe lang mag je stoppen met sporten voor je conditie weer om zeep is This is the only form in the first search that I found so far where I find "want hoe lang" Want hoe lang duurt het nu echt voor je conditie weer bij af is? "sinds hoe lang", "voor hoe lang", or "sinds wanneer" just based on what I would choose automatically is what comes to my mind if talking about a certain duration of time with start and end and/or has relevance in the present. Edited by 1e4e6 on 15 June 2015 at 1:36am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4704 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 508 of 509 15 June 2015 at 4:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Want hoe lang = because how long exactly? It implies that they're looking for a specific
answer. 1e4e6's statement is something like "So how long does it REALLY take before your condition is back to zero?" 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| chaotic_thought Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 3539 days ago 129 posts - 274 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, French | Message 509 of 509 15 June 2015 at 9:56am | IP Logged | ||
I would use none of the above. As a student of Dutch I would ask this: Hoe lang woon je al in België? (How long have you been in Belgium?) If it's all over and in the past: Hoe lang heb je in België gewoond? (How long were you in Belgium?) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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