Talk:Dutch/Lesson 8/Archive

Archived Jcwf (discuss • contribs) 02:39, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Strange coffee
"Is er al koffie?   Nee ik heb er nog geen gezet." is wrong. Should be: "Is er al koffie?   Nee ik heb hem nog niet gezet" Some speakers (e.g., my mother) consider koffie female and would say: Nee, ik heb ze nog niet gezet"

Kind regards, w:en:User:JMMuller (Dutch wikipedian)


 * You are from below the rivers, I am sure. In the north it is increasingly unusual to refer to an inanimate object with him, her etc. People avoid such references, because hem and haar are more reserved for persons. One way to avoid the hij/zij/hem/haar reference is to use a pronominal adverb like er(van) and no there is nothing wrong about that.

Jcwf (discuss • contribs) 19:14, 4 December 2012 (UTC)


 * This way of using er is quite old, e.g.:
 * Gij hebt een huis weder, doch hij heeft 'er geen, gelijk het ook gewoonlijk gaat