LeArN DuTcH from JoE

  "Louder the music, lower the quality of life! You can nothing overdo. Five senses have limits. It has unlimited processing capacity but not too much storage! You can't over eat, that is the same with sounds. You can't listen too much! Life is not about music, but life has to become musical!"  @tkktweets Ogenblikje,  (ogen =eye ; blik = tin) (eye of the small tin?) I will just put you through (Ik verbind u even door) Oh No, I am making a mistake. When the words are put together it will get a different meaning.  That is the twist of the Dutch language. Yes, Some expressions you just have to 'learn by heart'  Ogenblikje, ik verbind u even door. Hold on a moment, I'll just put you through. This is a very common expression you hear when you make a call to an office or to a call center for various services. Surprisingly you will be listening to the annoying repetitive music on an on... still in progress...

 "The winner is not always the ruler. The worthiness of the ruler that matters the future of the society. Humanity needs changes, but changes need not be always for power." @tkktweets   Don't make everything small! But when some things are small we should really tell that they are small.  When somethings are unusually small we need an extra indication of smallness. That is where we use the diminutive suffix.  A diminutive is a word formed by the use of a diminutive suffix. Keep in mind it is a suffix and not a prefix. Book+let = booklet Here comes the rules: The Dutch rules: Een diminutief is altijd een Het-woord! (I really doubt) het snoepje, het briefje, het meisje de kerk - het kerkje de club - het clubje YES een dininutief is altijd een HET- WOORD.  Boekje en tafeltje zijn verkleinwoorden. Een boekje is een klein boek.  Een tafeltje is een klein tafel.  Voor een verkleinwoord staat altijd het lidwoord 'het' het huis - het huisje het kind - het kind...

  "I have the secrets of happy life. The more you find about yourselves to the negativity, the more you learn about life. The moment you stop complaining about negativity, the more positive you can be." @tkktweets Ik begrijp het niet I don't understand it. 'Niet' simply means 'not' and is the most common way of making sentences negative. The two most common forms of negatives are NIET and GEEN.  I don't want to go home yet Ik will nog niet naar huis .  Did you see a negative standing up straight there. That is negative, and that is how they create negative sentence.  JOE drinkt GEEN bier (Not true in real life!) Joe doesn't drink any beer.  Dutch is easy because you don't have to add the verb to do as you often do in English.  It is easy but it is not that easy because of the most complicated placing of  NIET in a sentence. Do you think it is easy? You are not answering my question. U beantwoordt mijn vraag niet.  (here  NIET is at the end o...

 "Everything what we know about the universe is an iota of the totality. But the curiosity reveals everything in time." @tkktweets    We have a life of comparison. What is a comparative? It is a form of adjective or adverb expressing a higher or stronger degree.  When we are happy, we want to be happier.  When we are tall, we want to be taller. When we are rich, we want to be richer.  It is a never ending story. When we are not content with what we are or what we have, we start comparing with others or other things. ____________________________ haar auto is groter dan mijn auto. Her car is bigger than my car. __________________________ When you are beautiful (mooi), You want to be more beautiful (mooier)  'beautiful' (mooi) is an adjective. Everything in the universe is beautiful in its own way. But we humans like to compare. To make a comparative you just add -er to an adjective. mooi+er = mooier  The spelling rules apply as usual, but if you are...

 "The life is limited, but the days are unlimited. There will be someone else to fill up those days even if you are not there" @tkktweets You can talk about life! But when you are talking about TIME there are some rules to be followed: Time comes first,  then the manner, and finally place ______________________________ Joe gaat morgen (TIME) met de auto (MANNER) naar Maastricht (PLACE) Joe is going to Maastricht by car tomorrow. _____________________________   Now you can see that English is much easier than Dutch. As you see, the standard order in English is Place - manner - Time.  Even in English this is not an absolute order, it can be changed in order to highlight certain information.  _____________________________ For example: He is going to Elsloo tomorrow! Hij gaat naar Elsloo morgen! _____________________________ So when talking about the time when something takes place, the manner (or with who) and the location of what you are describing in Dutch,...