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More on why some words get a double consonant in the plural form while others don’t Posted by on Apr 19, 2013

Earlier this week, we tackled the question of why some words get a double consonant in the plural form while others don’t. We talked about Dutch words that have the short vowel sound like bot (bone) and man (man) that need that double consonant in the plural form (bottenĀ and mannen) to maintain their short vowel…

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Why do some words get a double consonant in the plural form and not others? Posted by on Apr 15, 2013

So here’s a question we were asked last week by a reader: “Random question. Woman = vrouw; women = vrouwen. Why not vrouwwen (ie man -> mannen, etc)?” Excellent question! Here’s the deal… As in English, vowels in Dutch can have both the long sound (been, maan) and short sound (ben, kat). In Dutch, the…

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More Dutch Consonants Posted by on Apr 25, 2009

The following consonants are pronounced similar to English except for a few exceptions: b – when b occurs at the end of a word it is pronounced as a p. Example: (web) web c – when the c is before i or e, it’s pronounced like the English s. (ceremonie) ceremony. Otherwise it sounds like…

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Dutch Consonants Posted by on Apr 24, 2009

Here are the Dutch consonants that have the same pronunciation in English: m – (man) man n – (niet) not s – (samen) together q – (quiz) quiz x – (extra) extra Here the consonants that are very similar to the English consonants, but are pronounced a lot softer in Dutch than in English: h…

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