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Tag Archives: hun/hen
Hun or hen? A Dutch shibboleth hitting the news
Hun and hen: these are third person plural pronouns in Dutch, but the distinction – hun for indirect object and hen for direct object – is hard to remember (for me it definitely is). And anyway, the distinction was only … Continue reading
Posted in Dutch prescriptivism, news, usage features
Tagged Dutch prescriptivism, Dutch usage advice, hun/hen, shibboleths
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Hen and hun in Dutch. Or: How to Make a Usage Problem Go Away
This is Amos van Baalen’s second blogpost for last semester’s MA course Non-Standard English: Modern Dutch technically does not have a case system anymore. Remnants of this system occur in many set expressions, such as te allen tijde “at all … Continue reading
Posted in usage features, usage guide
Tagged hun/hen, Onze Taal, Wouter van Wingerden
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