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Niet alleen de jongens hebben gevoetbald maar ook de
meisjes. 3
Not only the boys played football but also the girls.
The accents on of and en above are in fact superfluous, but nevertheless
commonly found. The new spelling rules do not permit the use of graves,
only acutes, but òf and èn will still be found written with graves if they
are written with accents at all.
12.4.1.1
Notes
1 There are a few things to watch out for when translating ‘neither . . .
nor’:
(Noch) 1 mijn broer noch mijn vriend kon me helpen. (note the
singular verb)
Neither my brother nor my friend could help me.
Ik heb gegeten noch gedronken.
I have neither eaten nor drunk anything.
When only one noch is used the verb is commonly in the plural
although the purist would insist on a singular verb here too:
Mijn broer noch mijn vriend kon(den) me helpen.
Neither my brother nor my friend could help me.
An English construction such as ‘He may not stay here nor may he
go home’ is simplified in Dutch to Hij mag niet hier blijven en hij
mag ook niet naar huis (ook niet = not either, see 16.1.4.7).
2 In the expression zowel . . . als (ook) inclusion of ook is considered
archaic these days.
3 Compare the following, which is syntactically and thus semantically
different:
Niet alleen heeft hij het boek al gelezen (maar) hij heeft het
ook al teruggebracht.
Not only has he already read the book but he has also already
returned it.
See 12.4.3.2.
1 Noch is not to be confused with the more commonly heard nog meaning ‘still/yet’;
both are of course pronounced the same.
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conjunctions
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