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Ze kan urenlang naar koeien staan kijken.
She can stand looking at cows for hours.
The verbs proberen and trachten ‘to try’ can occur in a double infinitive
construction like that of the above verbs but they always require te:
Hij probeerde mij te helpen.
He tried to help me.
Hij heeft mij proberen te helpen.
He (has) tried to help me.
A double infinitive can be avoided here by employing the following
construction, which is in fact just as commonly used as the above:
Hij heeft geprobeerd mij te helpen.
The verb beginnen, when used in the perfect tense and followed by another
infinitive, usually follows the regular pattern of past participle + te + infinitive
but it can also follow the same pattern as proberen, using the infinitive
instead of the past participle:
Toen is het kind begonnen te schreeuwen.
Toen is het kind beginnen te schreeuwen.
Then the child started to scream/screaming.
Hij is begonnen een brief te schrijven.
Hij is een brief beginnen te schrijven.
He began to write/writing a letter.
Similarly the verb weten, which literally means ‘to know’ but renders English
‘to manage’ in such constructions:
Hij wist te ontsnappen.
He managed to escape.
Hij heeft het weten te vinden.
He (has) managed to find it.
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When the following verbs are used as finite verbs and are followed by an
infinitive, the infinitive is not preceded by te:
horen gaan helpen laten hebben blijven
zien komen leren doen wezen vinden
voelen
The infinitive
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