Dutch grammar for foreigners

• Conjunctions

  What are conjuctions, how can they be classified, and a special case about 'toen', 'wanneer' and 'als'.

• Strange words

  Words that don't really follow normal grammar rules, but have some special meanings, like 'maar' (not in the context of 'but').

• (In)separable verbs

  When should compound verbs be separated? How do conjugate separable verbs?

• Nouns

  Plural forms of nouns.

• Negation

  The difference between 'geen' and 'niet'.

• Personal pronouns

  Should you use je or jij, we or wij, ze or zij?

• Prepositions in combinations with verbs/nouns

  Do you use 'op' or 'in' in combination with 'school' or 'universiteit'?
  And how do you know which preposition to use with a verb?

• Tenslotte or ten slotte, and similar problems

  Should words like tenslotte, teneinde, tenminste, teveel, etc., be written as 1 word or as 2?

• Words with more or less the same meaning, and the difference between them

  An example are the words tendens and neiging.

• Words used in comparison

  These words are similar to English words like long - longer - longest. There regular forms, but there are some irregular ones too (luckily there are some rules for them).

• Modal particles in Dutch

  These words often express a mood. At the moment just 1 example, 'toch'. This is a complicated word in Dutch, with a lot of uses.

• Gender of words in Dutch and the consequences for other words

  When to use de and het, die and dat, deze and dit?

• When to use an 'e' after adjectives and pronouns

  When to use an 'e' after adjectives and pronouns in all kinds of situations. A table with columns for plural/singular, female/male/neutral, etc.

• Pronunciation of Dutch sounds

  At the moment focusing on combinations of letters, like 'ui' and 'ei'.