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Kom je vandaag of kom je morgen?
Are you coming today or tomorrow?
Hij heeft het beloofd doch hij heeft het niet gedaan.
He promised to but he didn’t do it.
12.1.1
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Notes
Note that the following English conjunctional construction with ‘and’ (i.e.
‘to go and do s.t.’) is avoided in Dutch:
We gingen zitten.
We went and sat down.
Ze gingen toen samen drop kopen.
They then went and bought some licorice together.
All these constructions require a double infinitive in the perfect tense (see
11.9.2.5), i.e.:
We zijn gaan zitten.
We went and sat down.
Ze zijn toen samen drop gaan kopen.
They then went and bought some liquorice together.
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The conjunction ‘for’ is rather formal in English and is usually replaced
by ‘because’, but in Dutch the reverse is the case. A sentence such as ‘He
dropped the cup because it was too hot’ would usually be rendered as Hij
liet het kopje vallen want het was te heet, although omdat plus subordinate
word order would be quite correct too. Note that just as English ‘because’
cannot always be replaced by ‘for’, so omdat cannot always be replaced
by want, i.e. when a compound sentence begins with the subordinate clause,
then ‘because’ and omdat must be used:
Omdat het kopje te heet was, liet hij het vallen.
Because the cup was too hot, he dropped it.
Hij liet het kopje vallen want het was te heet.
Hij liet het kopje vallen omdat het te heet was.
He dropped the cup because it was too hot.
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