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Common in spoken Dutch. Other than in names, "het" is usually written in full in written Dutch.
't is never capitalised, even before a proper noun or at the start of sentences. Instead, the following word is capitalised, as in 't Kan beter. (It could be better.)
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner, mijns |
2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer, jouws |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer, haars |
3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
plural | |||||||||
1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer, onzes |
2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner, huns |
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |
Contraction of het.
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nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ich | 'ch | mich | m'ch | mir | m'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) |
doe | de | dich | d'ch | dir | d'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) |
duur | 'r | uch | uch | uch | uch | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person singular | m | heë deë |
e de |
dem | d'm | hem dem |
'm | zich | |
f | zie het |
ze 't | |||||||
n | det | 't | |||||||
1st person plural | vir | v'r | ós | — | ós | — | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person plural | duur | 'r | uch | uch | uch | uch | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person plural | zie die |
ze | hön | — | hönnen | — | zich |
Contraction of het, itself derived from det.
't f
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ich | 'ch | mich | m'ch | mir | m'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) |
doe | de | dich | d'ch | dir | d'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) |
duur | 'r | uch | uch | uch | uch | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person singular | m | heë deë |
e de |
dem | d'm | hem dem |
'm | zich | |
f | zie het |
ze 't | |||||||
n | det | 't | |||||||
1st person plural | vir | v'r | ós | — | ós | — | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person plural | duur | 'r | uch | uch | uch | uch | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person plural | zie die |
ze | hön | — | hönnen | — | zich |
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nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ech | — | mech | — | mir | mer | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) |
du | de | dech | — | dir | der | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) |
Dir | Der | Iech | Iech | Iech | Iech | Iech | ||
3rd person singular | m | hien | en | hien | en | him | em | sech | |
f | si | se | si | se | hir | er | sech | ||
n | hatt | et ('t) | hatt | et ('t) | him | em | sech | ||
1st person plural | mir | mer | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | ||
2nd person plural | dir | der | iech | iech | iech | iech | iech | ||
3rd person plural | si | se | si | se | hinnen | en | sech |
't (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔)
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