Grammatica - loco

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Conjunctions
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12.2.1.10
Naar is only found in higher style and usually in set expressions:
Naar ik meen is het Afrikaans een mengtaal.
Afrikaans is, I believe, a mixed language.
Naar men zegt . . .
It is said/one says . . .
Naar verluidt . . .
It is rumoured . . .
12.3
Adverbial conjunctions
Grammatically speaking these words are adverbs but they often function
as conjunctions introducing clauses. Their adverbial qualities are however
obvious from the word order which follows, i.e. inversion of subject and
verb so that the verb remains the second idea, the adverb being the first
idea in the clause. More adverbs than those listed below may function in
this way:
alleen1 only
althans2 at least, at any rate
dus1 thus, hence, for that reason
daarom thus, hence, for that reason
vandaar thus, hence, for that reason
daarvandaan thus, hence, for that reason
toch nevertheless, but, however
al3 even if
ook al even if
als4 as if
anders otherwise
desondanks in spite of it/that
intussen in the meantime, meanwhile
inmiddels in the meantime, meanwhile