Grammatica - loco

11
Verbs
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The above is potentially confusing only to the foreign learner but the
following is also confusing to the Dutch.
A verb like lopen door further complicates the issue because of the tendency
for some prepositions to follow the object to which they refer in order to
indicate a motion (13.2.1); such cases as doorlopen and lopen door can
look and sound the same in certain contexts but remain semantically
different:
doorlopen Ik liep gewoon door.
Ik ben gewoon doorgelopen.
I simply walked on.
lopen door Ik liep door het bos/Ik ben door het bos
gelopen.
I walked through the forest (i.e. in the forest).
Ik liep het bos door.
Ik ben het bos door gelopen/doorgelopen.
I walked right through the forest (i.e. crossed
through it).
In the final example strictly speaking door gelopen is correct but one is
more likely to see doorgelopen (see also 15.5.5).
11.20.2
Inseparable verbs
Onscheidbare werkoorden
There are four sorts of inseparable prefixes:
1 Prefixes that can only be inseparable: be-, er-, ge-, her-, ont-, ver-.
2 Prepositional prefixes which can also act as separable prefixes (see
11.20.1): aan, achter, door, om, onder, over, voor.
3 A few adverbs which act as inseparable prefixes: mis, vol, weer; (all of
these also occur as separable prefixes, see 11.20.1), e.g. zich misdrágen
‘to misbehave, voldóén ‘to suffice’, weerstáán ‘to withstand’. (The
accents are not normally written but merely serve to show the stress.)
4 There are just a few compound verbs which do not separate but which,
unlike the verbs in the previous three groups, bear the stress (compare
these with those in the third group under 11.20.1 that do separate):
beeldhouwen to sculpt rangschikken to arrange in order
glimlachen to smile stofzuigen to vacuum clean