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CONDITIONAL PERFECT TENSE That tense which combines both a
conditional ‘would’ and a perfect tense form consisting of have + a
past participle, e.g. ‘He would have done it’ Hij zou het gedaan hebben.
CONDITIONAL TENSE The tense used in expressing conditions by means
of ‘would’, often preceded or followed by a clause starting with ‘if’,
e.g. If you did it, I would be very grateful’.
CONJUGATE Verbs are conjugated when they take endings corresponding
with the first, second or third person. (See ‘first person’, ‘second person’,
‘third person’.)
CONJUNCTION A word which joins two clauses or phrases.
CONSONANTS The non-vowel sounds of a language, e.g. b, c, d, f, g, h,
j, k etc. (See ‘vowel’.)
CONTINUOUS The present or past continuous is another name for the
present or past progressive. (See ‘progressive’.)
CO-ORDINATE CLAUSE A co-ordinate clause is one which is introduced
by a co-ordinating conjunction, i.e. one of the four joining words en,
maar, of or want which co-ordinates its clause to the main clause
(= makes it equal to), which is indicated by the finite verb in the
co-ordinate clause not being relegated to the end of that clause, e.g.
Hij blijft vandaag thuis want hij voelt zich niet lekker, where want is
the co-ordinating conjunction and want hij voelt zich niet lekker the
co-ordinate clause. (Compare ‘subordinate clause’.)
CO-ORDINATING CONJUNCTION A conjunction such as ‘and’, ‘but’ and
‘or’ which joins two co-ordinate clauses, i.e. clauses in which this equality
is shown by the finite verb standing in second position.
CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTION Members of a pair of conjunctions the
occurrence of which alerts the listener to the appearance of the other,
e.g. the use of ‘neither’ alerts one to that of ‘nor’ to follow.
DATIVE (CASE) The case of the indirect object in a sentence.
DECLINE Synonymous with ‘to inflect’.
DEFINITE DIRECT OBJECTS A direct object preceded by a definite
determiner like ‘the’, ‘that’ or ‘this’ all of which designate a particular
item, e.g. ‘I don’t know that man’.
DEFINITE ARTICLE ‘The’ is referred to as the definite article, as it refers
to a definite object, as opposed to ‘a’, the indefinite article. The definite
article varies in Dutch according to gender and whether a noun is singular
or plural.
DEMONSTRATIVE A demonstrative, as the word implies, is a word that
points out or distinguishes. ‘This/these’ and ‘that/those’ are examples
of demonstratives.