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Conjunctional
adverbs
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Die tangocursus is vreselijk moeilijk; niettemin heb ik er veel plezier aan.
That tango class is terribly difficult. Nevertheless, I’m having a lot of
fun with it.
Alternative: Ik heb er niettemin veel plezier aan.
The conjunctional adverb daarentegen can be placed either at the beginning
of the sentence with inversion of subject and verb, or directly after
the subject. Examples:
Erik kan niet zo goed schaatsen. Daarentegen is Sanne er een kei in.
Erik doesn’t know how to skate very well. Sanne, on the other hand,
is really good at it.
Alternative: Sanne daarentegen is er een kei in.
The position of integendeel is at the beginning of the sentence, separated
by a comma:
Erik is geen goede schaatser. Integendeel, hij is er zelfs heel slecht in.
Erik isn’t a good ice skater. On the contrary, he’s actually really bad
at it.
Other conjunctional adverbs
althans that is to say, at least, well tenminste at least
trouwens by the way, indeed, overigens by the way, apart
anyhow from that, plus
immers after all, don’t forget bovendien besides, what’s
more
The conjunctional adverbs listed above are used when the speaker
wants to add to or slightly modify what he or she said in the previous
sentence (bovendien, trouwens, overigens, immers) or isn’t completely sure
(althans, tenminste). Most of the time, these adverbs are at the beginning
of the sentence, separated by a comma. As such, they are not strictly
part of the sentence. They can, however, also appear within the sentence.
Examples:
Het gaat morgen vriezen. Althans, dat staat in de krant.
It’s going to freeze tomorrow. Well, that’s what it says in the paper.
Alternative: Dat staat althans in de krant.
Het gaat morgen vriezen. Tenminste, dat staat in de krant.
It’s going to freeze tomorrow. At least that’s what it says in the paper.
Alternative: Dat staat tenminste in de krant.