{"id":3647,"date":"2023-04-25T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/?page_id=3647"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T17:24:58","slug":"substantively-used-adjectives-numerals-pronouns-and-medial-letters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/?page_id=3647","title":{"rendered":"Words used independently and medial letters- \u00a0Zelfstandig gebruikte woorden en tussenletters"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Independtly used words<\/strong> end with an -n if they refer to people not being mentioned in the sentence in case.<\/span>
Hoeveel\u00a0coca\u00efneverslaafden zijn er in Amsterdam?<\/em><\/span>
(How many cocaine addicts are there in Amsterdam<\/em>?)<\/span>
They don’t end with an -n if they refer to people who\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0being mentioned in the same sentence.<\/span>
Veel supporters reisden met de trein en weinige met de fiets.<\/span>
(Many supporters travelled by train and a few by bike.)<\/span>
If the substantively used words refer to animals, plants or objects, they never end with an -n.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Medial letters (tussenletters: s or e(n)<\/strong>\u00a0the medial -e or -en<\/span>
Main rule:<\/span>
You use the medial -en whenever the first word of the contraction is a noun that has only one plural form, ending with -en.<\/span>
It is kippen<\/strong>ei, because ‘kip’ has only got one plural: kippen. (chickens)<\/span>
But it is aspergesoep because the plural of asperge is asperges,<\/span><\/p>

Exceptions<\/u><\/strong><\/span>
Some words keep their medial -e, even though according to the main rule, they should be written with -en:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

a) words that refer to a unique person or object: zonnestraal and maneschijn for there is only one of those.<\/span>
b) In adjectives of which the first part is only there to accentuate the second part: apetrots, reuzeleuk and beregoed.<\/span>
c) The first part of the word is a noun without a plural: rijstepap and roggebrood. ‘Rijst’ does not have a pluralform, ‘rijsten’ is a non-existing word.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"\"\u00a0 Choose the language of the subtitles via settings.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Independtly used words end with an -n if they refer to people not being mentioned in the sentence in case.Hoeveel\u00a0coca\u00efneverslaafden zijn er in Amsterdam?(How many cocaine addicts are there in Amsterdam?)They don’t end with an -n if they refer to people who\u00a0are\u00a0being mentioned in the same sentence.Veel supporters reisden met de trein en weinige met … Continue reading Words used independently and medial letters- \u00a0Zelfstandig gebruikte woorden en tussenletters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3647","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3647\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutch4u.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}