tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 05 11:10:08 1995
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Dutch Language: To Be/Exist/Live (was Re: Suppletion)
- From: [email protected] (Peter and Damon Wise (see message))
- Subject: Dutch Language: To Be/Exist/Live (was Re: Suppletion)
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 19:07:06 +0000
Having been brought up in Belgium for 13 years - I have noticed more than a
little
confusion in the interchange from Dutch to English. For Example "Then" and
"Than"
are both Dan (Location). The problem is often caused by the interchange of
words
which have different meanings or don't have the same meaning any more. The
problem
is the same in French and dutch which have a variety of tenses, to indicate
whether something is happening at this moment, in the near future, distant
future,
a possible future, may have happened, did happen or should have happened, etc.
Wat zeg je. ("What say you - What do you say")
Ik versta je niet ("I understand you not" - or "I don't understand you")
Ik ben een buitenlander. "I am foreigner.
Excuzeer mij A.U.B.(Als het Uw Belief) "Excuse me please (If it you pleaseth)"
which converted into proper english means "Please excuse that I'm a foreigner."
: "Wat was was voor was was
>>>was? Voor was was was, was was is." ;-)
ben = Are (Present tense)
was = were (past tense) NOTE: waar = where
zal zijn = shall be (Future direct tense)
OR zullen zijn = will be
zou zijn (shall/would have been - Indirect future tense)
That usage does not make alot of sense in Dutch.
P.S. "was" also translates as "wash" from the verb "wassen" ("Washing")
To be or not to be. That is the question ... is usually in Dutch
"Zijn of niet te zijn. Dat is het vraag."
Maar ik heb vaak "Wezen" of "Leven" gehoord in plaats van "Zijn" in Vlaanderen.
(But I have often "Existing" or "Living" heard instead of "Being" in Flanders -
But I have often heard the word "Existing" or "Living" instead of "Being" in
Flanders.
>the verb being = zijn
>
>ik ben = I am ik was= I was
>jij/u bent = you/thou are/art jij/u was =you/thou were
>hij/zij/het/er is=he/she/it/there is hij/zij/het/er was =he/she/it/there was
>wij zijn = we are wij waren = we were
>jullie zijn = you are jullie waren = you were
>zij zijn = they are zij waren = they were
so Shall be = Zullen zijn (shall is)
Damon Matthew Wise
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