A Practical Grammar of the Dutch Language: Containing: an Explanation of the Different Parts of Speech; All the Rules of Syntax, and a Great Number of Practical Exercises [!] |
Common terms and phrases
adjective adnouns adverb auxiliary verb beloond boven brother buitenplaats conditional tense conjugation daar Dat gij dezelfde dezen diverted doen door dutch language eene eenen eerste express father Feminine gaan garden Geef geen gender gezien Gij hebt Gij zijt Gij zoudt Gij zult groot haar hadden hebben hebt gij Hij heeft Hij zal hoedanige iemand imperative mood Imperfect tense infinitive mood kinderen king komen koning Laat learned leeren maken Masculine mijne minder moeder neuter niet nouns Onder one's Onvolmaakt verledene tijd ourselves paard participle Participle passive person phrases Pluperfect tense plural preposition Present tense pronoun rewarded schrijven singular sister speak spreekt subjunctive mood substantives tafel Tegenwoordige tijd thing Thou toekomende tijd tuin vader veel vermaakt virtue vrouw waar waren welke Wij zouden Wij zullen word zeer zelf zich Zij zijn zijn zuster
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Page 73 - The persons speaking and spoken to, being at the same time the subjects of the discourse, are supposed to be present ; from which, and other circumstances, their sex is commonly known, and needs not be marked by a distinction of gender...
Page 358 - IT is not necessary to employ many words in drawing the character of this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable; and her person was as little engaging as her behaviour and address. Obstinacy, bigotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, revenge, tyranny ; every circumstance of her character, took a tincture from her bad temper and narrow understanding. And amidst that complication of vices which entered into her composition, we shall scarcely find any virtue but...
Page 6 - A syllable is a sound either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word; as, a, an, ant. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables; or of expressing a word by its proper letters.* WORDS.
Page 334 - Well fare thy heart, quoth the abbot ; and here in a cup of sack, I remember the health of his grace your master. I would give an hundred pounds, on the condition I could feed so heartily on beef, as you do. Alas ! my weak and queasy stomach will hardly digest the wing of a small rabbit or chicken.
Page 150 - ... acts upon itself, and is, at the same time, the agent and the object of the action. Reflective verbs, therefore, have always, besides the subject, another personal pronoun, viz. : me, te, se, myself, thyself, himself, herself, itself, for the singular ; nous, vous, se, ourselves, yourselves, themselves, for the plural.