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7.2.1.4. In the following words, which are in fact abbreviations, letters
have also been omitted and replaced by an apostrophe: ’s morgens
(historically < des), ’s-Hertogenbosch (historically < des); these are archaic
genitive forms.
The abbreviated forms of ik, het, mijn, zijn, i.e. ’k, ’t, m’n, z’n, which use
an apostrophe, are best avoided in writing except in certain standard
expressions where the abbreviated form is accepted:
met z’n drieën ‘the three of them’, op z’n Frans ‘à la française’
(always abbreviated in these two cases), in m’n eentje ‘on my own’,
Ik heb ’t koud ‘I am cold’, over ’t algemeen ‘in general’ (both
commonly but not necessarily abbreviated)
2.5
Capital letters
Hoofdletters
The use of capital letters is generally speaking as in English.
The Dutch regard the diphthong ij as one letter (it was a separate key on
a typewriter, for example, but is no longer one on the computer keyboard)
and thus if a word starts with ij and has to be capitalized, both the i and
the j are affected:
het IJ, het IJsselmeer, IJsland ‘Iceland’
Several expressions in Dutch start with ’s (see 2.4). If such an expression
stands at the beginning of a sentence, the first letter of the next word is
capitalized:
’s Avonds is zij nooit thuis. ‘She is never at home in the evening.’
In Dutch family names with van, den, der, ten and ter one usually writes
such particles separately and small letters are used when a first name or
initials precede:
Piet van den Berg, H. van der Molen
When the first name or initials are not mentioned, a capital letter is used:
een brief van Van den Berg
We hebben het over De Bruijn.
meneer Van der Plank