A concise grammar of the Dutch language by Dr. J. M. HOOGVLIET. (PDF)

A concise grammar of the Dutch language - with selections from the best authors in prose and poetry.

A concise grammar of the Dutch language

The Dutch language is spoken throughout the Kingdom of the Netherlands and in the Northern and Western parts of Belgium , besides by the civilized population of the Dutch colonies. 

In dialectical form the Dutch language extends far beyond the boundary-line of the Netherlands. Dialects of striking likeness to Dutch are spoken in the whole Western part of Prussia and along the coast of the Baltic. Moreover, at the Northern border of France , there is a narrow track of land , where a Dutch dialect is spoken until now. 

Then, in South-Africa the well known „boers" speak also Dutch, though in a some- what barbarous dialectical form. Dutch has the greatest affinity to the Low Dutch dialects in Germany , to English and to Friesian (a special language spoken in Friesland , one of the Dutch provinces in the N.E. part of the country, and on several islands along the neighbouring (Dutch and German) coast of the North Sea). 

Together with these languages it constitutes the group of the West-Germanic languages. A more distant relation it has to the High Dutch or German and to the Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic), which all make part of the Germanic or Teutonic family ^ a division of the extensive class of the Indo-European^ or Arian 

Highlights from Table of Contents

The Verb .............................................. 39  

Assonant Verbs (Weak Conjugation)

IV. The Verb (continued) ............................... 44  

Dissonant Verbs (Strong Conjugation)  

Irregular Conjugation  

Verbs Used Interrogatively and Negatively  

Compound Verbs  

V. The Numeral and the Adverb ......................... 52  

VI. Prepositions and Conjunctions ..................... 56  

VII. Syntax ........................................... 60  

### Reading, Writing, and Speaking Exercises

I. Translating from Dutch into English ................ 64  

II. Translating from English into Dutch ............... 72  

III. Familiar Phrases ................................. 81  

IV. Proverbial Phrases ............................... 85  

Appendices

First Appendix: Orthographical Tables ................. 87  

Second Appendix: Key to the Exercises .................  

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