10/29/2023 0 Comments Dutch irregular verb listsSome grammatical structures in Dutch are highly similar to English ('dit is water' - 'this is water', 'de kat zat op de mat' - 'the cat sat on the mat'), while many others are actually closer to German, especially those related to word order ('ik heb het niet' - 'ich habe es nicht', for 'I don't have it' - but compare with the older English version 'I have it not' 'ik wil het weten' and 'ich will es wissen', English 'I want to know it'), while yet others are similar to Scandinavian languages (the future formed with 'zal' - 'ska' in Swedish two genders for nouns, just like in Scandinavian). Dutch an Indo-European West Germanic language (in the same group as English, German, Afrikaans, Frisian and others) spoken by over 25 million people mostly in the Netherlands, Suriname and Belgium.
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