{"id":3887,"date":"2016-01-27T17:32:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2016-01-27T17:32:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:32:33","slug":"the-pain-of-separable-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-pain-of-separable-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pain of Separable Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I had a very “girly” problem related to Dutch. I was getting a manicure and I wanted to explain to the manicurist that I wasn’t able to completely remove the gel nail polish and needed her to help me. The problem was….which verb do you use for removing nail polish. In my head, I went over the options:\u00a0aftrekken, afdoen, wegdoen…<\/em>wait, am I making any of these up?<\/p>\n

The kind lady understood what I meant even with my improvised explanation as to what had happened, but the question lingered….what is the proper way to say this? I got home and hit the books for this and embraced one of my most hated Dutch enemies…separable verbs.<\/p>\n

Since I was first introduced to them, separable verbs and I just don’t like each other. They simply don’t pop up in my head when I need them, and I always forget to separate them. This has been our story from level A1 to level B2!<\/p>\n

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Regardless of my personal aversion to them, separable verbs are here to stay (no Dutch language authority is going to modify them to fit this language learner’s needs), and I simply just need to work on them. So, in an effort to conquer my enemies, here is a list of some of the separable verbs and what these loathed enemies mean.<\/p>\n