25
jun

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Yadda yadda yadda…blah blah blah

From the Urban dictionary: yadda yadda yadda is a phrase that means “and so forth” or “on and on;” it usually refers to something that is  boring and repetitive. The phrase comes from Yiddish, and became popular in the 1990’s after it was featured on the popular TV show “Seinfeld.” Synonym: blah blah blah For example: Liz told me every […]

19
jun

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How to make plurals (meervoud) in English

The correct answer is: 2 clogs Today is a short ‘clog blog’ about how to make plurals in English. The Dutch do it differently to us – they add an apostrophe (‘s). We never add an apostrophe to make a plural. Ever. The majority of words in English take an ‘s’ in the plural. 2 clogs, 4 drinks, 5 cats, […]

11
jun

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Ordinal numbers (Rangtelwoorden)

I’m sure you’ve spotted it …the list on the left of ordinal numbers (rangtelwoorden) is correct. When writing the date in English,we change 1, 2 and 3 into first (1st) second (2nd) and third (3rd). All the other ordinal numbers add ‘th’. The exception to this rule are numbers 11, 12 & 13: they all take ‘th’ (11th, 12th, […]

04
jun

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They’re, there and their

It seems like such a small thing, but really it’s not. My advice is to simply learn a sentence containing all three words: e.g. They’re going over there to get their car They’re = een verkorting van they are (zij zijn) There =    daar of er (ben je daar al eens geweest / er zijn […]

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