Oosterhoff J. Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook (Нидерландский язык: курс для начинающих, Оостерхофф)

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BASIC DUTCH:

A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK

Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible

reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume.

This workbook presents 25 individual grammar points in realistic

contexts, providing a grammatical approach which will allow students

not already familiar with these structures to become accustomed to

their use. Grammar points are followed by examples and exercises

designed to reinforce and consolidate students’ learning.

Suitable for class use or self-study, Basic Dutch introduces Dutch

culture and people through the medium of the language used today,

providing students with the basic tools to express themselves in a wide

variety of situations.

Features include:

• useful exercises and full answer key

• grammar tables for easy reference

• frequent comparative references to English grammar

• appendix of irregular verbs

• index of grammatical terms.

Jenneke A. Oosterhoff is Senior Lecturer in the Department of

German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota.

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BASIC DUTCH:

A GRAMMAR AND

WORKBOOK

Jenneke A. Oosterhoff

Illustrated by Ari Hoptman

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First published 2009

by Routledge

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Oosterhoff, Jenneke.

Basic Dutch : a grammar and workbook / Jenneke Oosterhoff.

p. cm.

Includes index.

1. Dutch language—Grammar. 2. Dutch language—Textbooks for foreign

speakers—English. I. Title.

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CONTENTS

Preface vii

1 Verbs and pronouns 1

2 Modal auxiliary verbs 11

3 Questions and question words 15

4 Numbers and measures 20

5 Telling the time 30

6 Articles and nouns 40

7 The plural of nouns 45

8 Object pronouns 52

9 Demonstrative pronouns 58

10 Possessive pronouns 62

11 Adjective endings 67

12 The adjective in comparison 73

13 Adverbs 78

14 The adverb er 87

15 Negatives 92

16 The diminutive 100

17 Separable and inseparable verbs 106

18 The present perfect tense 112

19 The simple past tense 119

20 The imperative 126

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21 Reﬂexive verbs 132

22 Inﬁnitive constructions 137

23 Word order 146

24 Relative clauses 153

25 Prepositions 157

Appendix: Strong and irregular verbs 169

Key to exercises 175

Index 193

Contents

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PREFACE

This book is a basic Dutch reference grammar with exercises for absolute

beginners or learners who want to reﬁne their knowledge of grammatical

structures. Each unit presents a grammatical topic with an introduction

and where necessary an overview in a table, followed by clear and con-

cise explanations in English and ending with a series of contextualized

exercises. The explanations are illustrated by examples in Dutch, and some

images are included to provide a more humorous context.

This basic grammar workbook is suitable for independent learning as

well as for classroom use. Its contents cover the materials typical for ﬁrst-

year curriculum Dutch as a foreign language taught at university level. Using

vocabulary associated with topics featured in typical ﬁrst-year Dutch lan-

guage textbooks, it can accompany any such textbook used in classroom

language instruction.

This is strictly a grammar book. It doesn’t include a chapter on pro-

nunciation, because the internet provides numerous examples on this

topic, including audio ﬁles. This book, however, provides clear explanations

of grammatical terms, contrasted with examples in English, and it gives

special attention to grammatical aspects of spelling.

Language is best learned and practiced in context. Sample sentences

and exercises in traditional grammar books often lack such context. Most

examples and exercises in this book, however, are written in context, using

an imaginary Dutch family of four and their circle of friends and neigh-

bors to provide a situational context. The exercises teach the learner to

ﬁrst recognize the grammar structure and then apply it in more complex

forms. For classroom purposes, some speaking exercises suitable for

group work are also included. For immediate feedback, a key to the exer-

cises is provided at the back of this book.

For help in writing this grammar workbook, I have consulted many

excellent reference grammars and other Dutch grammar workbooks, ﬁrst

and foremost the Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst (Martinus Nijhoff,

1997), but also works such as Dutch: An Essential Grammar (Routledge,

2002), De Regels van het Nederlands (Wolters Noordhoff, 1994) and

Nederlandse Grammatica voor Anderstaligen (Utrecht, 1985). I am

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indebted to the people at taaladvies.net for sending me quick and helpful

answers to complex grammatical questions. I specially thank Wijnie de Groot

and Alice van Kalsbeek for constructive comments and moral support

along the way, and I am most grateful to my students Heidi Raatz and

Julia Belgum for proofreading my chapters and asking me exactly the right

questions. Many thanks also to Ari Hoptman for providing the images to

underline the grammar with good laughs, and, lastly, I want to thank the

College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota for granting me a

leave of absence to ﬁnish this project.

Jenneke A. Oosterhoff

St. Paul, July 2008