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Verbs according to function 4
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Lecture1.1
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Lecture1.2
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Lecture1.3
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Lecture1.4
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Verbs according to meaning 7
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Lecture2.1
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Lecture2.2
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Lecture2.3
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Lecture2.4
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Lecture2.6
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Lecture2.7
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Verbs according to form 3
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Lecture3.1
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Lecture3.2
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Lecture3.3
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Verbs according to conjugation 6
For purposes of conjugation Dutch verbs can be divided into regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs follow a certain pattern in the way they are conjugated, whereas irregular verbs do not follow a pattern at all. The group of regular verbs is the largest, and this group can be divided further into weak verbs and strong verbs. The conjugation of a new verb (e.g. a verb borrowed from English) normally follows the rules of weak verbs.
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Lecture4.1
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Lecture4.2
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Lecture4.3
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Lecture4.4
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Lecture4.5
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Lecture4.6
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Tenses 9
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Lecture5.1
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Lecture5.2
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Lecture5.3
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Lecture5.4
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Lecture5.5
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Lecture5.6
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Lecture5.7
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Lecture5.8
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Revision exercises: verbs 1
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Lecture6.1
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Pluperfect
The pluperfect is a tense which, like the perfect tense, uses the auxiliaries hebben and zijn plus the past participle of the verb. The difference is that in the pluperfect the auxiliaries occur in their past tense (had/hadden and was/waren).
Marina had visited Antwerpen. She had gone there by bus.
Much as in English, the pluperfect can be used to describe a past event within the description of another past event. E.g.:
The doctor was here yesterday. She had been to see my neighbours first.
Here the doctor’s visit is described as an event in the past (therefore the past tense) in relation to which her visit to the neighbours had occurred earlier. So the visit to the neighbours had occurred in the past at the time when the doctor visited the speaker.