Valette
Dutch Conversation-Grammar
Dutch
Valette's Dutch Conversation-Grammar of 1913 in today's spelling, then the Defense Language Institute's Dutch Refresher Course of 1961 with its own tape.
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Parts of Speech I
1Lessons 1 to 5Hebben, to have: present tense; You: jij, u and jullie; Gender; The article: het lidwoord; The article is not declined; The indefinite article; Prepositions; Zijn, to be: present tense; Het Werkwoord: weak, strong and irregular verbs; Weak verbs: the past participle; Strong verbs: the past participl 2Lessons 6 to 10Hebben: infinitive and participles; Hebben: present and past indicative; Hebben: present perfect and pluperfect indicative; Hebben: future and future perfect indicative; The conditional: present and past; The subjunctive is gone; §188. Zullen: shall, will; §189. Worden: to be (of the passive voice); 3Lessons 11 to 13§ 205. Nouns with two plurals; § 206. The plural of diminutives; § 207. Plurals with a change of vowel, and man; § 208. Nouns used in the plural only; § 209. Nouns used in the singular only; § 210. The plural of abstract nouns; § 211. Proper nouns and foreign words; The adjective used as a noun; DecParts of Speech II
4Lessons 14 to 18Impersonal verbs: operations of nature (§ 231-232); Weather and time expressions with het (§ 232); Impersonal verbs of feeling (§ 232); General expressions with het (§ 232); Dat zijn, het zijn (§ 233); Er is, er zijn: there is, there are (§ 234); Conjugation of an impersonal verb (§ 235); Weak and s 5Lessons 19 to 21The irregular verbs: three groups; Kunnen, mogen, weten, moeten, zullen, willen: conjugation; Why these six verbs have no personal ending; Durven; Leggen and zeggen; Werken; Brengen, denken, dunken; Zoeken and kopen; Doen, gaan, slaan, staan, zien, zijn: the monosyllabic verbs; Kunnen, mogen: how to 6Lessons 22 to 25Separable and inseparable compound verbs; Inseparable real compounds; Separable real compounds; Compound verbs with an adjective or a numeral before the noun; Compound verbs with prefixes; Inseparable prefixes: be-, er-, ge-, her-, ont-, ver-; Separable prefixes; Prefixes that are sometimes separablUse of the Parts of Speech, and Word-Formation
7Lessons 26 to 29§349. Use of the Article; §350. A. The Definite Article: used in Dutch, left out in English; §351. The Definite Article omitted in Dutch, but used in English; §352. The Definite Article sometimes used in Dutch where the Indefinite Article is used in English; §353. B. The Indefinite Article used in D 8Lessons 30 to 33Dit, dat as predicatives may refer to a plural; Deze, die, dat instead of a personal pronoun; Deze and die referring to two things already named; English this, these are not always dit, deze; The relative pronoun is never left out; Welke: elevated style, and two relative clauses; Die, never welke, a 9Lessons 34 to 36§489. The Present Tense: uses and exceptions; §490. The Past Tense with a lingering relation to the present; §491. The Dutch Perfect Tense for the English Past; §492. The Pluperfect Tense, and 'after' with a Past Infinitive; §493. The Subjunctive Mood in wishes and unintroduced dependent clauses; §4 10Lessons 37 to 39§565. Over = about, above, across, at, by, beyond, in, of, on, opposite, over, upon; §566. Sedert may denote a duration, whereas since denotes a point of time only; §567. Te = at, by, in, on, to; §568. Tegen = against, about, at, by, in spite of, to, towards; §569. Tot = to, till, among, into; §570. 11Lessons 40 to 42§605. Nouns formed by vowel-change; §606. The noun-forming suffixes; §607. The suffix -aar; §608. The suffix -aar weakened to -er; §609. The suffixes -e, -de, -te; §610. The suffixes -egge, -ster, -in, -es forming feminines; §611. Words in -em, -sem, -en denoting things; §612. The suffix -ing, -ling 12Lessons 43 to 45§674–675. Formation of verbs: the prefix be-; §676. Er and her; §677. Ge; §678. Ont; §679. Ver; §680–684. Suffixes: el, er, ig and eer(en); §685–686. Suffixes el, er: frequentative and intensive verbs; §687. Causative verbs; §688. Verbs formed from particles; §689. Composition: verbal root with a boRefresher Course, Book I
13Unit 1: The Dutch Sound SystemThe vowels, semivowels, liquids and nasals, stops and fricatives, clusters, special sounds and stress of Dutch, heard and said. 14Unit 2: Het Delta PlanLessons 7 to 9: Het Delta Plan, learned, questioned and heard in conversation. 15Unit 3: Verkiezingen in NederlandLessons 10 to 12: Verkiezingen in Nederland, learned, questioned and heard in conversation. 16Unit 4: Een Hollandse lekkernijLessons 13 to 15: Een Hollandse lekkernij, learned, questioned and heard in conversation. 17Unit 5: Het tekort aan zoet waterLessons 16 to 18: Het tekort aan zoet water, learned, questioned and heard in conversation. 18Unit 6: Iets over de Nederlandse literatuurLessons 19 to 21: Iets over de Nederlandse literatuur, learned, questioned and heard in conversation. 19Unit 7: SinterklaasLessons 22 to 24: Sinterklaas, learned, questioned and heard in conversation. 20Unit 8: Het Nederlandse WereldrijkLessons 25 to 27: Het Nederlandse Wereldrijk, learned, questioned and heard in conversation. 21Unit 9: Ridders en KastelenLessons 28 to 30: Ridders en Kastelen, learned, questioned and heard in conversation.Refresher Course, Books II and III
22Book II, Unit 1: Unit 1Lessons 1 to 7: five conversations, the drills and the test. 23Book II, Unit 2: Unit 2Lessons 8 to 14: five conversations, the drills and the test. 24Book II, Unit 3: Unit 3Lessons 15 to 21: five conversations, the drills and the test. 25Book II, Unit 4: Unit 4Lessons 22 to 28: five conversations, the drills and the test. 26Book II, Unit 5: Unit 5Lessons 29 to 35: five conversations, the drills and the test. 27Book II, Unit 6: Unit 6Lessons 36 to 42: five conversations, the drills and the test. 28Book III, Unit 1: Unit 1Lessons 1 to 7: five conversations, the drills and the test. 29Book III, Unit 2: Unit 2Lessons 8 to 14: five conversations, the drills and the test. 30Book III, Unit 3: Unit 3Lessons 15 to 21: five conversations, the drills and the test. 31Book III, Unit 4: Unit 4Lessons 22 to 28: five conversations, the drills and the test. 32Book III, Unit 5: Unit 5Lessons 29 to 35: five conversations, the drills and the test. 33Book III, Unit 6: Unit 6Lessons 36 to 42: five conversations, the drills and the test.The particulars
- The course
- Valette, Dutch Conversation-Grammar (1913) and its Key (1893); Defense Language Institute, Dutch Refresher Course, Books I to III (1961). Public domain. The teaching pages, the readings' English, the answers to the conversations and the narration are ours.
- The book
- Max Havelaar, the work this course leads to, free to read here.
- Data
- Every unit as JSON and Markdown at the same address. A guide for agents.