Talk:Dutch/Lesson 4/Archive

Archived 5/19/15

This seems to be a pretty shoddy translation from some other language. What on earth is a geneeskundeuniversiteit, and why don't we spell it geneeskunde-universiteit, as "Het Groene Boekje" tells us? Is it a translation of the American word "medical school"?

In The Netherlands and Belgium alike, medicine is taught at a "geneeskundefaculteit", that is, a department of medicine, which tends to be affiliated with a larger "universiteit". It is emphatically *not* particularly expensive to study medicine, since the departments of medicine charge the same amount of tuition as other university departments.

And then the sentence "Elly is zeker mooi". Although "zeker" literally translates as the adverb "surely", it is also used as an unstressed particle to create a rhetorical question with positive answer expected and slight disapproval implied (or something like that). The Dutch system of particles is surely interesting and complex, but this is a very confusing example.

131.215.167.114 05:45, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

The module has been revised thoroughly since then 152.1.193.141 18:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)