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6<br />

Indefinite<br />

pronouns<br />

50<br />

Heb je alle vi<strong>er</strong> die koekjes opgegeten?<br />

Did you eat all four of those cookies?<br />

Alle drie onze kind<strong>er</strong>en stud<strong>er</strong>en.<br />

All three of our children go to univ<strong>er</strong>sity.<br />

The pronoun allen is used only to ref<strong>er</strong> to a group of p<strong>er</strong>sons. In more<br />

informal speech, allen is replaced by ied<strong>er</strong>een, which is much more common.<br />

Examples:<br />

Ik heb allen een uitnodiging gestuurd.<br />

I have sent an invitation to ev<strong>er</strong>yone.<br />

Ik heb ied<strong>er</strong>een een uitnodiging gestuurd.<br />

I have sent an invitation to ev<strong>er</strong>yone.<br />

The pronoun alles is used to ref<strong>er</strong> to a group of things; it is the opposite<br />

of niets. A relative sentence following this pronoun will begin with wat.<br />

Examples:<br />

Ik heb alles gehoord.<br />

I heard ev<strong>er</strong>ything.<br />

Alles wat je daar zegt, is grote kletskoek.<br />

Ev<strong>er</strong>ything you’re saying th<strong>er</strong>e is hogwash.<br />

In combination with a preposition, alles is often replaced by ov<strong>er</strong>al.<br />

Example:<br />

Jij denkt aan alles! → Jij denkt ov<strong>er</strong>al aan!<br />

You think about ev<strong>er</strong>ything.<br />

If the sentence has a direct object, the object is placed aft<strong>er</strong> ov<strong>er</strong>al and<br />

before the preposition. The preposition is at the end of the sentence.<br />

Example:<br />

Hij heeft een mening ov<strong>er</strong> alles. → Hij heeft ov<strong>er</strong>al een mening ov<strong>er</strong>.<br />

He has an opinion about ev<strong>er</strong>ything.<br />

Jij maakt een punt van alles! → Jij maakt ov<strong>er</strong>al een punt van.<br />

You make an issue out of ev<strong>er</strong>ything.<br />

The pronoun allemaal is used primarily in speech. Its position in the<br />

sentence is aft<strong>er</strong> the noun or pronoun to which it ref<strong>er</strong>s and aft<strong>er</strong> the finite<br />

v<strong>er</strong>b. It can ref<strong>er</strong> to p<strong>er</strong>sons and things. Examples:

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