Word
Ik wil alle koekjes en de hele taart bakken.
Meaning
I want to bake all the cookies and the whole pie.
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Questions & Answers about Ik wil alle koekjes en de hele taart bakken.
Why do we use alle for the cookies but hele for the pie?
This shows the exact difference between these two quantifiers. Alle means "all" and is used with plural nouns to refer to every individual item in a group (alle koekjes). Heel or hele means "whole" or "entire" and is used with singular nouns to describe the entirety of one single object (de hele taart).
Why isn't it alle de koekjes, since the English translation says "all the cookies"?
In Dutch, when you use alle directly before a noun to mean "all the", you almost always drop the definite article. So "all the cookies" simply becomes alle koekjes. Saying alle de koekjes is grammatically incorrect in modern Dutch.
Why does heel get an -e ending to become de hele taart?
Heel is acting as a standard adjective here, meaning "whole". Because taart is a de-word and is preceded by the definite article de, the adjective gets the standard -e ending. If it were an indefinite het-word, it would drop the -e (for example, een heel brood meaning "a whole loaf of bread").
Why is bakken all the way at the end of the sentence?