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| location | Netherlands | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
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Jan 31 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Nov 21 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jul 30 |
awarded | Caucus |
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Mar 29 |
accepted | Word for parents of your child's partner |
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Mar 20 |
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Word for parents of your child's partner @Mitch, hmmm, interesting phenomenon. |
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Mar 20 |
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Word for parents of your child's partner @FumbleFingers, I'd love to say besan, but that probably would not help any smooth communication. Yours is second best. |
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Mar 20 |
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Word for parents of your child's partner I agree with your first statement, but why would such a common concept not have a word for it? We should invent one! :) |
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Mar 20 |
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Word for parents of your child's partner Of course, no, there isn't would be a valid answer. I wait a while to see what will come across. |
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Mar 20 |
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Word for parents of your child's partner Yes, and I do. It always seems to require some two-stage expression. One word would be easier and more elegant. And less detached. |
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Mar 20 |
asked | Word for parents of your child's partner |
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Mar 9 |
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The time before place mantra Oh OK. In Dutch we would connect riding + boots: ridingboots. So no question there. As for the other adjectives, the one we'd want to emphasize could appear in front. I sense that the ones that are more intrinsic to the noun would appear closer to the noun. Like if Spanish would determine their style more than leather it would be "... Spanish ridingboots". |
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Mar 9 |
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The time before place mantra @FumbleFingers Sure. My feeling is that we tend to put the more important ones first. So it would depend on context and intention. We could say Prague we visit next week, to emphasize that it is not Paris, or next week we visit Praque to say that it is not this week. |
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Mar 9 |
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The time before place mantra @FumbleFingers Interesting, I'll keep in touch! Would be interesting to get to know what I didn't know I knew... |
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Mar 8 |
accepted | The time before place mantra |
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Mar 8 |
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The time before place mantra Shoe, I already started to doubt my memory. But this is the final blow. What you say perfectly makes sense. Good to realize, though, that there actually is some rule, although of course it is not a law of physics. |
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Mar 8 |
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The time before place mantra @horatio - I'm not aware of that, we could say a similar thing in any order. I think that rules like this serve as a prosthesis of sorts until one has developed a some feeling with a language. Maybe there are rules like this for the Dutch language but I have never had to learn them. |
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Mar 8 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Mar 8 |
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The time before place mantra @FumbleFingers, no never heard that one. But anyway, the question in a broader sense could be whether such rules make sense for foreign speakers as a substitute for internalized rules that native speakers have. But that would be a discussion, not a Q&A. |
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Mar 8 |
asked | The time before place mantra |
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Mar 5 |
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What do you call the question type in a quiz game where you have to order the answers? Or "open question". |
