In the table below, you can see the first Dutch verbs you will learn.

English	Dutch

The verbs above are presented in the infinitive form, and if we want to combine them with personal pronouns in order to make sentences, we will need to conjugate them.

Infinitive	Stem
drinken	drink
wachten	wacht
kennen	ken
bakken	bak

Conjugating a verb simply means to change its shape, and in order to do this, we first create the stem form by cutting off the en at the end, and if we end up with the same letter twice, we'll also cut off one of them.

Now we know how to obtain the stem of a verb, we can use it in our conjugation rules for different persons.

Person	Rule
ik	stem	ik drink I drink	ik wacht I wait	ik ken I know	ik bak I bake
jij	stem + t	jij drinkt you drink	jij wacht you wait	jij kent you know	jij bakt you bake
hij/zij/het	stem + t	hij drinkt he drinks	zij wacht she waits	hij kent he knows	zij bakt she knows
wij/jullie/zij	infinitive	wij drinken we drink	jullie wachten you wait	zij kennen they know	zij bakken they bake

Note that for the second person singular, jij, we don't add a t after the stem if the stem already ends in a t.