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The Dutch Language: an Introduction/Workbook

Contents

Introduction

  • The Netherlands
  • History of the Dutch Language
  • Language chart
  • Language Map

Chapter 1

  • Pronunciation
  • Alphabet
  • Vowels
  • Pronunciations of vowel combinations
    • Consonants
  • Animals
  • Basic Expressions
    • Salutations
    • Greetings
    • Introductions
    • Responses
    • Parting
  • Calendar
    • Days
    • Months
    • Holidays
    • Seasons
  • Geographical terms
    • Directions
    • Provinces   Capital cities   Other cities
    • Netherlands Geography
    • Landmarks
    • Continents
    • Countries   Nationalities
  • Numerals
    • Numbers
    • Ordinal Numbers
    • Parts

Chapter 2

  • The Jansen Family
      • Opa Gerrit
      • Oma Alide
      • Wim
      • Greet
      • Jan
      • Nico
      • Emma
      • Marja
      • Gerhard
      • Janny
      • Thomas
      • Martin
      • Saskia
      • Ahmad
      • Solange
    • Family Members
    • Verjaardagen
    • What is in a name?
  • De Koninklijke Familie
    • H. M. KoninginBeatrix
      • Willem-Alexander
        • Máxima
      • Johan Friso
      • Constantijn
    • Irene
    • Margriet
      • Maurits
      • Bernhard Jr.
      • Pieter_Christiaan
      • Floris
    • Maria Christina
  • Important Royal Events

Chapter 3

  • Sentence Structure
    • Word Order
    • Grammar
    • Grammatical terminology
    • Punctuation
    • Parts of a sentence
    • Parts of speech
  • Pronouns
    • Pronoun functions
    • Personal pronouns
      • Stressed Unstressed
    • Possessive pronouns
    • Reflexive personal pronouns
    • Interrogative pronouns
    • Demonstrative pronouns
  • Verbs
    • Verb terminology
    • Verb functions/types
  • Verb tenses
  • Regular verbs
    • Presenttense regular verbs
    • Presenttense regular verbs endings
    • Some other regular verbs
    • Active/Passive voice
  • Irregular verbs
    • Present tense ofzijn
    • Present tense of hebben
  • Interrogative verbs
  • Common irregularverbs

Chapter 4

  • Time
    • Telling time
    • What time is it?
    • Around the clock
    • Expressions oftime
  • Articles
    • Definite article
    • Indefinite article
  • Nouns
    • Plurals of nouns
    • Adjectives as nouns
      • Inflected adjectives
      • Uninflected adjectives
    • Gender of nouns
      • Gender specific nouns
  • Diminutives
  • Prepositions
  • Shapes and Colors
    • Less common colors
    • Possessive pronouns and colors

Chapter 5

  • Currency
    • Euro Coins
    • Euro Paper currency
      • ATMs are hungry
      • At the currency exchange
      • At the bank
  • Negatives
    • No
    • Not
      • Additional negative terminology
  • The Weather
  • Food
    • Opaloves soup
    • Wim’s lunch
    • Greet’s picnic
    • Janny at the market
    • Marja and fish
    • Martin and tasty things
    • Saskia’s breakfast
    • Ahmad cooks
  • Weights and Measures
    • Terminology
      • Mass/Weights
      • Distance/length
      • Volume
        • Prefixes
        • Temperatures
        • Symbols
  • The Table
    • A surprise for Oma and Opa
      • Dinner at Sans Pareil

Chapter 6

  • Transportation
    • Directions
      • Transportation terminology
  • Travel arrangements
    • Types of trains
  • Adverbs
  • Comparatives and superlatives
  • There
  • Imperative verbs
  • Contrasts

Chapter 7

  • Past tense of verbs
    • Verb Stems
    • Past tense of regular verbs
    • Irregular simple past tense
    • Past tense of hebben en zijn
    • Past perfect
  • Modal Verbs
    • Conjugation of modal verbs
  • Infinitive Constructions
    • To use without te
    • Use of te
  • More adjectives
  • Clothing
  • Nouns with articles
  • Materials

Chapter 8

  • Anatomy
    • Anatomical nouns with articles
  • Medical words with articles
  • Future verbs
    • Future tense of zijn
    • Future tense of hebben
    • Verb conjugation in future tense
  • Conjunctions
  • Separable verbs
  • Inseparable/separable verbs
  • Past participle of separable verbs

Chapter 9

  • Conditional Verbs
  • Services
    • Nouns with definite articles
    • Telephone conversations
    • Liquids
    • Wim’s office
    • At the hairdresser
    • Hairdresser terminology
    • Hotel
      • Nouns with definite articles
    • The post office
    • Trip for Saskia and Solange

Chapter 10

  • Sports
    • Which sports are being played?
  • Sports Terminology
    • More sports terminology
  • Computers
  • At Oma’s house
  • Food
    • Appetizers
    • Eggs
    • Cheese
    • Poultry
    • Vegetable
    • Spices
    • Desserts
    • Salad
    • Sauce
    • Soup
    • Fish
    • Meat
      • Preparation of meat dishes
    • Fruit
  • Stores
    • Shopping terminology
    • Toiletry articles

Chapter 11

  • Additional Prefixes
  • The school system in the Netherlands
    • The classroom
    • Jan at school
    • Martin at university
    • Solange teaches the French language
    • Oma and Opa take dance lessons
    • Gerhard and Janny Greet takes knitting lessons
    • Emma and Marja learn from nature
  • Conversations
    • Nico skips school
    • Emma does not like mathematics
    • Oma remembers her first grade
      • Aap, Noot, Mies…

Chapter 12

  • Suffixes
    • The hospital
    • A visit to the doctor
    • Conversation with the doctor
    • Gerhard is sick
    • Wim breaks his leg
    • Thomas has a temperature
    • A medical emergency on the highway
    • The neighbour’s accident
  • Travel
    • Oma and Opa go to Hawaii
    • Preparing for the trip
    • In the airplane
    • On the beach at Waikiki

Appendix A
Less commonly used present tense irregular verbs

Appendix B
Nouns that require de

Appendix C
Nouns that require het

Appendix D
Irregular simple past tense

Appendix E
Conjugated verbs

Vocabulary

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