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Chapter 6
Demonstratives
Aanwijzende voornaamwoorden
6.1
The demonstrative, like the definite article, varies according to the gender
of the noun it precedes:
common gender: deze this die that
neuter gender: dit this dat that
plural (both genders): deze these die those
deze deur this door die deur that door
dit huis this house dat huis that house
deze deuren these doors die deuren those doors
deze huizen these houses die huizen those houses
Note: de het
deze common gender and plural dit neuter singular
die dat
6.2
Other case forms of the demonstratives are found in standard expressions:
(een) dezer dagen one of these days 1
1 In Dutch this expression refers to the near future, not to any point in the near or
distant future as it does in English. Thus ‘one of these days’ is not really the correct
translation of this expression, but rather ‘in the not too distant future’.