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12<br />

Conjunctions<br />

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It is, for example, very common after ingeval, naarmate, naar gelang and<br />

niettegenstaande.<br />

A rather idiomatic usage of dat is the following:<br />

Een stank dat er was!<br />

There was a terrible smell!<br />

En eten dat hij kan!<br />

How he can eat!<br />

Note also the use of dat in the following instances where it could be confused<br />

with the relative pronoun:<br />

De tweede keer dat hij kwam.<br />

The second time he came.<br />

Dit is een pot uit de tijd dat er hier nog geen blanken<br />

leefden.<br />

This is a pot from the time that/before there were any whites living<br />

here.<br />

12.2.1.2<br />

The conjunctions voordat and nadat are commonly used in combination<br />

with kort, lang and daags, e.g. kort voordat/nadat ‘shortly before/after’,<br />

lang voordat/nadat ‘long before/after’, daags voordat/nadat ‘the day<br />

before/after’.<br />

Wanneer and als (meaning ‘when’) are commonly preceded by pas, zelfs,<br />

and vooral, e.g. pas wanneer/als ‘only when/not until’ (see 16.1.4.6), zelfs<br />

wanneer/als ‘even when’ and vooral wanneer/als ‘especially when’.<br />

12.2.1.3<br />

For substitution of omdat with want see 12.1.1.2. Note that where ‘as’<br />

or ‘since’ mean ‘because’ (see daar) they should be translated by omdat:<br />

Omdat hij zich misselijk voelt, blijft hij thuis.<br />

As he feels sick, he’s staying at home.<br />

12.2.1.4<br />

In colloquial Dutch the subtle distinction between zodat and opdat is<br />

often ignored and zodat is used in both senses:

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