Grammatica - loco

1111
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1011
1
12111
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
20111
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
30111
1
2
3
4
5
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7
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9
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41111
huisvesten to house stroomlijnen to streamline
knipogen to wink voetballen to play football
raadplegen to consult waarschuwen to warn
All the verbs in groups 1, 2 and 3 are conjugated like normal verbs in all
tenses, never separate, and because they already contain an unstressed prefix,
no ge- (which would be a further unstressed prefix) is added to form the
past participle:
Hij herstélde de televisie/Hij heeft de televisie herstéld.
He repaired the television set.
Hij voorspélde slecht weer/Hij heeft slecht weer voorspéld.
He predicted bad weather.
Het huis doorstónd het orkaan/Het huis heeft het orkaan
doorstáán.
The house withstood the hurricane. 38
(The above accents should not be copied in writing; they are only to illustrate
the stress.)
The verbs in group 4, all of which have a stressed prefix, do take ge-, but
this does not go between the prefix and the verb as is the case with separable
verbs:
Wij hebben de hele dag gevoetbald.
We played football all day.
It is not always possible to isolate the meaning of these prefixes but there
are a few patterns which can be described.
11.20.2.1
Meaning of the prefixes in group 1 (those in group 4 are usually self-evident,
which is often the case with those in 2 and 3 too, but not necessarily).
11.20.2.1.1
The prefix be- is an extremely common prefix and has a variety of functions:
(a) It can be used to make transitive those intransitive verbs that take a
prepositional object (see 11.21), sometimes with a slight change in
38 The English verb ‘to withstand’ in this example illustrates that a similar phenomenon
exists in English too.
Verbal
prefixes
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