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Ik heb er toen het brood mee gesneden.
I then cut the bread with it.
But note that pronominal objects go between the finite verb and er and
that it is possible to put er after nominal objects (i.e. not immediately
after the finite verb) if there is another word or expression which can be
inserted between er and the preposition dependent on it:
Ik heb het/dat er toen mee gesneden.
Ik heb het brood er toen mee gesneden.
Without the adverb toen one has the choice here of either leaving er and
the preposition together or else, as would be more usual in speech, putting
the er after the finite verb:
Ik heb het brood ermee gesneden.
Ik heb er het brood mee gesneden.
Note however that with an indefinite direct object (i.e. in this case brood
as opposed to het brood) there is a distinct preference for separating er
from its preposition:
Ik heb er brood mee gesneden.
I cut bread with it.
When the finite verb in a sentence with a pronominal er is a reflexive
verb, er follows the reflexive pronoun:
Ik heb me er vreselijk aan geërgerd. (zich ergeren aan)
I was very irritated by it. (to be irritated by)
The above constructions must not be confused with waar . . . mee etc.
(see 8.5.3)
Note the following complicated usage of pronominal er where it is employed
with verbs that are followed by a fixed preposition, i.e. verbs that take a
prepositional object (e.g. overtuigen van ‘to convince of’, denken aan ‘to
think of’ etc.—see 11.16.12 and 11.21). In all the following examples the
object of the first clause containing a verb that takes a prepositional object
is in fact the next clause and the er + preposition pre-empts that second
clause, which can be an infinitive clause (as in examples one and two) or
a subordinate clause (as in example three). Acquiring a feeling for the correct
use of er in these constructions is one of the most difficult aspects of
Dutch grammar:
Ik had er nooit aan gedacht het zo te doen.
I would never have thought of doing it like that.
Pronominal
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