Talk:Dutch/Lesson 15/Archive

Archived Jcwf (discuss • contribs) 02:51, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Remarks

 *  Jessicas  should be Jessica's
 * Het ligt dus voor de hand dat ze het daar heeft laten liggen. de portemonnee ==> hem (instead of het, because the sentences are close together.


 * De sentence right before it says "het geld".

Later on in the story, one might perhaps loosely refer to a wallet as a thing, het ding so het is used: Ik hoop dat het gevonden is, although i would still say Ik hoop dat hij gevonden is. Best to teach good Dutch.


 * If you want to refer to the blond servant, sure, but not if she means the money. The guy would be "hij". People who learn Dutch should NOT refer to a wallet as "he", anymore than they do it English.

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