plurals
In Dutch the plurals is even hard for the native speakers, don't get frustrated if this doesn't work
jaar (year), muziek (music), slaap (sleep), geld (money) = no plural
1 jaar, 2 jaar, 3 jaar
note!!! it took years = het duurde jaren (this one does have a plural)
plurals are mostly for zelfstandige naamwoorden (noun) or (ZN)
they sometimes work like this ZN+en or ZN+s
BUT they're all different, lot's and lot's of exceptions...
there's a trick for the plurals ZN+en
~s = ~zen e.g. buis --> buizen, muis --> muizen
~f = ~ven e.g. fuif --> fuiven, korf --> korven
~heid = ~heden e.g. kleinigheid --> kleinigheden, waarheid --> waarheden
~vowel = ien e.g. koe --> koeien, vlo --> vlooien!! watch out 2 o's here
~ee = +ën e.g. idee --> ideeën, zee--> zeeën
~ie= +ën e.g. drie --> drieën, categorie --> categorieën
note!!! this is not with all the ZNen there are exceptions the actual rule is the accent, if the word accents the last syllable = +ën
if the word accents another syllable you leave an 'e' and then +ën
e.g. assuRANtie --> assurantiën the 'ran' has the accent here
this really hard and advanced even native speakers have problems with it so don't get frustrated
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