by Clarissa | Oct 22, 2018 | writing |
My husband says the Dutch call the gap for a missing tooth a bicycle rack, but I must admit that I’ve never heard anyone refer to it as that. As you can see from the photo rocket boy has lost three teeth in the last few months, and the new ones are being slow to...
by Clarissa | May 8, 2018 | writing
The blog challenge was fun. I enjoyed finding words to fit each letter. As I was doing CampNaNo in April too I actually wrote all of the posts in mid-March and scheduled them in advance. This meant that I didn’t have to remember to write them everyday. The...
by Clarissa | Apr 30, 2018 | dutch life, writing |
Z is for zeker, zeggen and zien. Zeker means certainly and is often used as a one word answer, or two words with yes first! Zeggen is to say and zien is to see. These are two verbs that are irregular and I often get their past tenses confused. Zaggen is saw and zeiden...
by Clarissa | Apr 28, 2018 | dutch life, writing
The Dutch more commonly use the dipthong IJ instead of Y. In fact as rocket boy learns to write he will be taught to write what we would recognise as a small y, but puts dots on top of both parts to make it an ij, and that’s the 25th letter of the alphabet. And...
by Clarissa | Apr 27, 2018 | dutch life, writing
X is another word that isn’t often used as an initial letter in Dutch.
