Grammatica - loco

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Verbs
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laten zinken (tr.) Ik heb het laten zinken.
I sank it.
to shrink krimpen (intr.) De trui is gekrompen.
The jumper has shrunk.
laten krimpen (tr.) Ik heb hem laten krimpen.
I shrank it.
to run lopen (intr.) Het paard liep langs het strand.
The horse ran along the beach.
laten lopen (tr.) Hij heeft het paard langs het
strand laten lopen.
He ran the horse along the beach.
to melt smelten (intr.) De boter is gesmolten.
The butter has melted.
laten smelten (tr.) Ik heb de boter in de magnetron
laten smelten.
I melted the butter in the microwave.
Such laten constructions are very common in Dutch (see 11.9.2.5 (c)).
11.18.3
Transitive verbs are usually conjugated with hebben in the perfect tenses
(see 11.7.2.1, footnote 21 for the very few exceptions). Intransitive verbs,
on the other hand, use either hebben or zijn, for example:
Hij heeft gelachen.
He laughed.
Het huis heeft urenlang gebrand.
The house burnt for hours.
Hij is gestorven.
He (has) died.
11.18.4
Intransitive verbs cannot generally be used in the passive as the passive is
by definition a construction where the object of the active sentence becomes