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Vandaag gaat-ie naar Polen. He’s going to Poland today.
The difference between this and the referential die (see 8.1.2.5 (c)) is
often not heard:
heeft-ie, heeft die
Ie will also be heard after other words ending in -t, e.g. Weet-ie
wat-ie vandaag moet doen? ‘Does he know what he has to do
today?’ It sometimes occurs after consonants other than -t, e.g.
Vertel me waar ie woont ‘Tell me where he lives’. Other than in
direct speech it is only in avant-garde publications that one will find
sometimes ie being written.
In natural speech an n is commonly inserted before an ie or an ik
after a verbal form ending in -de or -te (i.e. in the imperfect singular
of weak verbs); this is merely a glide to aid pronunciation:
Vorig jaar woonde-n-ie nog in Edam/Vorig jaar woonde-n-ik
nog in Edam.
Last year he was still living in Edam/Last year I was still living in Edam.
Toen rookte-n-ie een sjekkie/Toen rookte-n-ik een sjekkie.
He then smoked a roll-your-own/I then smoked a roll-your-own.
(e) Just as in English where the somewhat stilted pronoun ‘one’ is
usually replaced by unemphatic ‘you’, so in Dutch men is replaced
by je (never jij) in general speech and can also be used with this
meaning to people to whom one otherwise says u; the emphatic
form jij can only mean ‘you’, i.e. the person one is talking to.
Similarly ze can replace men just as in English ‘they’ replaces ‘one’;
the difference between je and ze in such contexts is the same as
between ‘you’ and ‘they’ in English, i.e. in the latter case the speaker
and the person being addressed are not included in the action:
Men heeft de onafhankelijkheid van dat land erkend.
One has recognized that country’s independence.
Ze hebben de onafhankelijkheid van dat land erkend.
They have recognized that country’s independence.
The pronoun we is often used in an impersonal sense too, just as in
English.
Hier hebben we het Paleis op de Dam.
Here we have the Palace on the Dam. (= Here one has the Palace on
the Dam)
See also 11.12.4.9.
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