Breakdown of Mijn dochter d'r kat heeft niet in de bench gejankt.
niet
not
de kat
the cat
hebben
to have
in
in
Questions & Answers about Mijn dochter d'r kat heeft niet in de bench gejankt.
Why do we say Mijn dochter d'r kat instead of De kat van mijn dochter?
While De kat van mijn dochter is standard and perfectly correct, this sentence uses a very common colloquial possessive structure. You take the owner (mijn dochter), add the unstressed possessive pronoun matching their gender (d'r, short for haar), and then the object (kat). It literally translates to "My daughter her cat."
Is the word bench an English loanword, and does it mean the same thing in Dutch?
It is an English loanword, but its meaning has narrowed in Dutch! A bench (pronounced exactly as in English) refers specifically to a wire pet crate or cage used indoors. If you want to sit on a bench in the park, you would look for a bank or bankje.
Could I use gehuild instead of gejankt for a whining cat?
It is much more natural to use janken for animals. Huilen is the standard word for human crying, whereas janken describes the howling, whining, or yelping of animals. If you use janken for a human, it sounds quite negative or dismissive, similar to "bawling" or "blubbering."
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