@Debris 417579 wrote:
Haha, love this topic.
And yes, it’s correct.
Dutch is one of the most difficult languages there are to learn.
After more then 10 years of spellings lessons I still don’t know exactly how to spell.
There are different rules for almost every verb.
wat maakt onze talen zo moeilijke, is dat zij zijn hele soortgelijke 😉
- Westerkertiers: t Eenege dat wie niet doun is slik uutdeeln
- Stadsgrunnegs (city): t Oinege dat wie noit doun is baaltjes oetdailn
- Hoogelaandsters: t Ainege dat wie nait dudden is slik oetdijln
- Westerwoolds: t Einege dat wie nich dun is slikkerij uutdeiln
- Veenkelonioals: t Ainege wat wie nait dudden is slikke uutduiln
- East Frisian Low Saxon: Dat eenzige, dat wi neet doon is Slickeree utdelen.
- Northern Low Saxon of Germany: Dat eenzige, dat wi nich doot, (dat) is Snabbelkraam uutdeeln.
- Standard Dutch: Het enige dat we niet doen is snoep uitdelen.
- Standard German: Das einzige, das wir nicht machen, ist Süßigkeiten austeilen.
- Scots: The anerly thing we dinnae dae is gie oot snashters.
- English: The only thing we do not do is hand out sweets.
I was in the pub a few weeks ago, and my friend is Danish – but when he visits his family he speaks to them in German (I am not sure why, perhaps !sinner69! can explain this phenomenon). And for some reason (after we had drunk much beer), he tries to get me to speak to him in German, which I just about managed but ended up slipping into Dutch..
the “g” is not so difficult for me, as I used to practice hissing like a cat.
Some years ago my family used to have two cats, but one (the more dominant cat) went missing. so the remaining cat (which inspired me to use the “witte kat” avatar) was being bullied by a half-siameese cat in a neighbouring house
And one night I came back home late, waited for this other cat, and hissed and caterwauled it until it ran away :laugh_at:
