Talk:Dutch/Lesson 9/Archive

Archived Jcwf (discuss • contribs) 02:41, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Remarks
1 "Ja, ik heb dat zullen doen, maar ik had geen tijd meer. " sounds weird. Dutch speakers would say:


 * "Ja, ik zou dat doen, maar ik had geen tijd meer. "


 * I don't agree: your sentence does not reflect the perfect aspect: it means something else.

2 "waar ik het zou hebben kunnen laten verlengen." This is Dutch fun for cabaret! The word order is wrong: should be but still it's too lengthy.
 * "waar ik het zou kunnen hebben laten verlengen."


 * Oh sure, lengthy strings of infinitves are stylistically undesirable. The point is to show that in Dutch they are possible. The word order is not wrong, just because it is not the order you normally use. The word order of modal verbs differs from region to region.

3. "Je zult" is somewhat Bible language/dialect/Flemish. Daily usage: "Jij/je zal", the standard, must not be omitted!!


 * ???? The standard is "je zult". "Je zal" is colloquial.... (And no I am not Flemish)

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