Dutch between German and English Posted by Transparent Language on Oct 22, 2008 in Dutch Language
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letopmannekke:
Spoken Flemish in particular has an uncanny resonance of Brooklynese.
mark:
halo yes that make’s sence i find some dutch
quiet easy it’s the g’s thats the problem
but am getting there
doei doei mark
Rebecca:
Yes, I’am going to have to agree with you when saying that Dutch is closer related with English. There are tons of words in Dutch that are related to English it’s incrediable.
Dutch: Tim helpt in de keuken
English: Tim helped in the kitchen
Dutch:tafel
English: table
Dutch: stoel
English:chair, stool
Dutch:huis
English: house
I could probably go on forever. so, I’ll stop now. But before I post this I do have to say that German is does have a similrity with Dutch.
Bart Reemeyer:
You state “your email is never shared”, but what I believe you mean is “your email address is never shared”
Significant difference !!
Bijzonder verschil !!
Bisonderes unterschied !!
Kevin Chilton:
As an English expat living in Friesland, I have learned that the original Angles in the Anglo-Saxons were from the greater Friesland that then existed, and that Friesan is in fact one of the roots of English
nancy:
dutch-english
Janna:
Halo, that is a great site, great
mercy:
dutch less in a complecated words sometimes is easy but i want to learn more
gyongyi:
The reason why Dutch is so similar to English and German at the same time can be found if we study histroy of language.
All the three languages belong to the same language family.
Around the 5th century the Second Germanic Sound Shift took place when some consonants changed (e.g. instead of P people started to use F, instead of D they used T). This was the point when the three languages became different from each other. The process of the shift depends on the area where the language was spoken. Old English was unaffected by the shift since it was far away.
The Germanic-speaking area in Europe was divided into two: High Germanic and Low Germanic. High Germanic (German) was spoken in the south, Low Germanic (Dutch) in the north.
The Low Germanic languages did not experince the shift.
So in Old English and in Low Germanic the above mentioned consonants were not shifted.
Let’s make a contrast:
P-F contrast:
shiP (English) SchiFF (German) shiP (Dutch)
sleeP (English) schlaFen (German) slaPen (Dutch)
D-T contrast:
Day (English) Tag (German) Dag (Dutch)
Do (English) Tun (German) Doen (dutch)
But I think if we look at the structure of the language, grammar, Dutch is much more similar to German (since they developed together on the same area), regarding the words (the consonants) it is similar to English.
Have a nice day.
Anonima Artist:
Hello, i speak all three languages!
But i’m speaking italian and serbian too and i think, that dutch have som words from italian
Italian: Camera
Dutch: Kamer
Eng: Room
It: Ma
du: Maar
Eng: But
Dutch has a lot of french words Presis, Avonturr. Its smilar to swedish
Dutch: Tijd
Swedish: Tide
Eng: Time
and and and
But the similarst language to dutch is german or low german, but i’ dont speak low german and have learned the dutch door de duitse taal
Cristina Ungstad Yu:
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Peter:
I see another similarity between English & Dutch/difference between German & Dutch. The Dutch like to express themselves in short sentences in a pragmatic way, just like English speaking people do. Don’t overdo when talking. Maybe that was one of the reasons for the French to call Dutch a language for kitchen helps. It’s a simple, straightforward language, what you hear is what you get. German on the other hand is a language that was “invented” by writers, a language intended for literary purposes. Germans have the tendency to talk in long sentences, adding information that is not strictly needed to convey the message. Even a simple conversation in a German grocery shop sounds like a philosophic discourse.
sackeus:
i think dutch is more close to afrikaans, i.e
english;do
dutch;doen
afrikaans;doen
Marco van de Voort:
Saxon, Frisian, English and Scotts are so called Ingveoic (West-) Germanic languages, and closely related.
/Standard/ Dutch is from Frankish descent and together with Hessian Istveonic. The dialect of Holland had quite some influence on it though, and the Holland dialect, specially the more Northern parts have significant Frisian influence. The extreme South Eastern dialects (Limburg) have some German (-sound shift) traits.
/Standard/ German orginates mostly in southern Germany and is of the Irmveonic kind.
North German (not North Germanic!) is called Low German, and is Saxon in origin and thus Ingveonic (same group as English). There is a small pocket of Saxon dialects in the Netherlands too (Drente)
ADRIAN WICKOP:
The example of ;on the road/onderweg/unterwegs; the English phrase should be ;on the way, not on the road