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| jeschell Newbie United States Joined 6981 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes | Message 1 of 6 16 October 2005 at 5:36pm | IP Logged |
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Hello, this is my first time using this forum, though I have visited it many times before since it is such an excellent site!
Anyway, I am deciding to learn Dutch as my first foreign language (I studied Spanish for three years in high school but didn't get anywhere due to lack of interest). I have pretty much no knowledge of Dutch but I am seeing that the word order is going to be a problem for me for awhile. Does anyone know of a detailed explanation of word order? I have "Essential Dutch Grammar" by Henry Stern, but the section on word order left me with many more questions. Specifically I am not understanding the placement of words in such sentences as this: "Hij zegt dat hij niet zingen wil." How would I get such a word order in to my mind...would it help if I started thinking English in Dutch word order or something? lol So, basically is there a site with detailed explanation of word order or is there a set pattern that I am not seeing? Thank you so much for any help! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bart Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 7162 days ago 155 posts - 159 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese, Swedish | Message 2 of 6 17 October 2005 at 2:44am | IP Logged |
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I can't really help you with resources, as I'm a native speaker, but I can tell you that I (as a native, albeit a Belgian) would change the word order in your example sentence.
I would say it like this: "Hij zegt dat hij niet wil zingen." 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jeschell Newbie United States Joined 6981 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes | Message 3 of 6 18 October 2005 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you! Yeah, that makes a lot more sense then the sentence I gave..I wonder why my book said it was the other way around
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| Bart Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 7162 days ago 155 posts - 159 votes Speaks: Dutch*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese, Swedish | Message 4 of 6 18 October 2005 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
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The sentence you wrote isn't really wrong, but I wouldn't use it unless it was for a poem or a songtext or something.
It's correct, but I at least would never use it in regular speech. Edited by Bart on 18 October 2005 at 5:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7036 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 6 19 October 2005 at 9:33am | IP Logged |
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I totaly agree with Bart.
I did a very quick search for you Jeshell. Maybe this helps a little: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_grammar Tuffy Edited by tuffy on 19 October 2005 at 9:36am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jeschell Newbie United States Joined 6981 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes | Message 6 of 6 19 October 2005 at 2:22pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks! I've used Wikipedia before but I had no idea that they had a Dutch Grammar section, so thanks for that.
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