Middle Dutch
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Fact corner
- Language: Middle Dutch
- Alternate names: Diets, Middelnederlands
- SIL-code: -
- Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West, Low Saxon-Low Franconian
- Number of speakers: Extinct
- Script: Latin script
Introduction
Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) which were spoken and written between 1150 and 1500. There was at that time as yet no overarching standard language, but they were all mutually intelligible.
The Old Dutch verb
- 3 moods: Indicative, Subjunctive, and Imperative
- 2 tenses: Present and Preterite
- 2 numbers: Singular and Plural
- 3 persons
Sample verb: keren
- Infinitive: keren
- Present participle: kerende
- Past participle: ghekeert
| INDICATIVE | SUBJUNCTIVE | IMPERATIVE | |||
| Present | Preterite | Present | Preterite | ||
| Sg.1 | kere | keerde | kere | keerde | - |
| Sg.2 | keers | keerdes | keers | keerdes | keer! / kere! |
| Sg.3 | kert | keerde | kere | keerde | - |
| Pl.1 | keren | keerden | keren | keerden | - |
| Pl.2 | keret | keerdet | keret | keerdet | keert! / keret! |
| Pl.3 | keren | keerden | keren | keerden | - |
External links
- Middle Dutch verb(approve sites)
References
- van der Wal, M.J.. Geschiedenis van het Nederlands.
1992.