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De verzamelaar heeft een enorm poppenhuis.

De verzamelaar heeft een enorm poppenhuis.
The collector has a huge dollhouse.
From Lesson 287:Diminutive vowel doubling (-tje)·Dutch

Questions & Answers about De verzamelaar heeft een enorm poppenhuis.

Why is the adjective written as enorm instead of enorme?
Huis (and therefore poppenhuis) is a het word. When an adjective comes before a het word that is preceded by the indefinite article een (a/an), we drop the usual -e ending from the adjective.
Why is there an -en- in the middle of poppenhuis?
This is a compound noun made from pop (doll) and huis (house). Because the standard plural of pop is poppen, we use -en- as the linking sound to glue the two words together.
How is the noun verzamelaar (collector) formed?
It is derived from the verb verzamelen (to collect). While many Dutch professions or doer nouns are formed by adding -er to the verb stem (like speler), verbs with a stem ending in -l, -r, or -n typically take the suffix -aar instead.
If we wanted to talk about a 'little dollhouse', would it use the vowel-doubling rule from this lesson?
No, it would simply be poppenhuisje. The vowel-doubling rule (like auto becoming autootje) only applies to nouns that end in a long open vowel, whereas poppenhuis ends in a consonant.

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