For instance, "the fishes" refers to multiple species of fish, while les poissons just refers to multiple fish. Grammatical cases have largely become limited to pronouns and many set phrases. Each year, some 1, to 2, students take Dutch courses there. Consider the examples below and note how the article and adjective change to agree with each noun. Typologically, Dutch takes a position between German and English, a similar word order to that of German, grammatical gender, and a largely Germanic vocabulary with many cognates to German words.
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