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Email
These days you are probably more likely to email someone than write them
a letter. Depending on the formality of the situation, the practice may not
differ greatly from formal letter writing as described above, but generally
speaking email is more informal. An email to a friend called Joop is most
likely to start with Hoi Joop. or Hallo Joop. on the first line with the rest
of the email continuing on the next line. Beste/Lieve Joop (depending on
the relationship) is of course just as possible in an email as in a letter. The
most usual ending is merely Groetjes on a line of its own, followed by your
first name on the next line. Tot mails, modelled on tot ziens, is also possible
instead of Groetjes or even a combination of the two, i.e. Groetjes en tot
mails. Here is some more handy email terminology:
de e-mail 3 (pl. e-mails)
het e-mailadres
e-mailen (past tenses: e-mailde, ge-e-maild 4 )
It is also possible in Dutch, and indeed more usual, to simply use the verb
mailen instead of e-mailen as this word does not otherwise exist in Dutch,
unlike English, e.g.:
Ik heb je gisteren gemaild. 5
I emailed you yesterday.
In similar fashion ‘an email’, as opposed to the technology as a whole, is
most usually expressed by een mail (c.) or een mailtje (n.), e.g.:
E-mail is geweldig.
Email is fabulous.
Ik heb nooit een mail/mailtje van je ontvangen.
I have never received an email from you.
3 The hyphen is more important in Dutch than in English, where it is commonly
omitted, as there is also a totally unrelated French loanword, email (enamel), which is
pronounced as in French.
4 See 11.1.2.1 and 11.1.3.1 for more on how to conjugate verbs like this derived from
English.
5 It is very common, and indeed usual, for English loanwords to come into Dutch with
just one of the meanings they possess in English, e.g. cake (one particular sort of cake),
catering (home catering, not catering in general), container (a shipping container only).
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