Talk:Dutch/Lesson 1

Remark

 * "Mevrouw De Vries: Zeer goed, dank u wel. En met u?"

 Zeer goed is a bit old-fashioned (can it still be heard? It's ironical nowadays.) for Heel goed.

Regards, w:en:User:JMMuller (Dutch wikipedian)


 * Yes, you are right, I think. Much of the text was there before I got my hands on it and I think it might have been a German who wrote it. Sehr is more normal in German. In today's Dutch in this particular case it is a bit old-fashioned, but then so am I, so I didn't notice ...


 * I put a footnote on it.

Jcwf (discuss • contribs) 01:56, 11 April 2015 (UTC)


 * "Mevrouw De Vries is meneer Standish al tegengekomen." - "Niet waar."

How exactly can this be said with any confidence? It seemed likely that she had already met meneer Standish since she was aware of the fact that he spoke Dutch (which was unknown/new information to meneer Jansen who hadn't met him yet). Sorry if this formatting is wrong for the discussion. This is my first post on discussion. Thank you.


 * "Dit is erg slecht, denk ik. -> That is very bad, I think."

Should this be changed to "This is very bad, I think." due to the use of "Dit" and not "Dat"? Or is this contextual?

--TheFogSpirit (discuss • contribs) 01:01, 4 July 2016 (UTC)