Archive for July, 2012
Dutch Verb Boot Camp: The Simple Past Tense (Part 1) Posted by heather on Jul 5, 2012
We have already talked about the present tense in Dutch, so let’s move on to the past tense. Today we will investigate weak verbs. In the past tense, we deal with verbs differently based on if they are a weak verb or a strong verb. weak verbs have letters added to make the change strong…
Frisian and the Skûtsjesilen Championships Posted by heather on Jul 3, 2012
On July 28th the Skûtsjesilen Championships will take place. Have you never heard of the word Skûtsjesilen? I hadn’t. So here is what I found out via the Holland.com website: “Skûtsjes are typical Frisian ships that were originally used as cargo ships by Frisian farmers. Skûtsjes have a long and flat structure with which they…