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| Whole Word Checkbox
| | • | When this box is checked, searching for house will not find greenhouse and housefly.
| | • | When this box is not checked, searching for house finds house, greenhouse, housefly, etc.
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Wildcards
| | • | Searching for house finds "house".
| | • | The symbol % means any series of letters, or zero letters. Searching for h%se finds hose, horse and house.
| | • | The symbol _ (underscore) means any letter. Searching for h_se finds hose.
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| | Phrases and Sentences
| | Searching for house finds "house" and phrases containing the word "house", like "to stay at someone's house".
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| | Finding Dutch Verbs and Nouns
| | You don't need an infinitive to find a Dutch verb. Just enter the word you know. Examples:
Searching for namen aan finds the verb aannemen (to adopt)
Searching for brachten finds the verb brengen (to bring).
You can also enter the plural of a Dutch noun. Example:
Searching for namen finds de naam (the name), and some verbs.
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| Links to Images
| | To view an image of something, first search for the word and then click on it when a link is available. Example: apple (See also the Visual Dictionary.)
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| | Links to Verb Conjugation Tables
| | To view a conjugation table (eight tenses and moods of a verb), first search for the verb and then click on it when a link is available. Example: kopen
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| | Basic Verb Conjugation
| | Some conjugation information is already shown in the search result list, because it doesn't take much space: (1st person past tense, 1st person present perfect tense). Example: kopen (kocht, heb gekocht) means:
| | • | kopen (to buy) is the infinitive
| | • | ik kocht (I bought) is the 1st person past tense
| | • | ik heb gekocht (I have bought) is the 1st person present perfect tense
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| | Singular and Plural
| | The plural of a Dutch word is in parentheses. Example: het huis (de huizen) means:
| | • | het huis is singular
| | • | de huizen is plural.
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| | Important Translations First
| | This dictionary is a list of English words (and phrases) and their Dutch translations. Often, just one of the translations is correct in a given context. Care is taken to list the most common Dutch translation first. Example: case, where naamval is a less important grammatical term listed 4th.
Remark: This does not work for Dutch to English translations. In that case the list order determines the order of the search results. Example: zaak
| | Extra Information between parentheses
| | Other information might be shown between parentheses, for instance that the Dutch verb hoeven is used in negative sentences.
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| Linking to the Dictionary
| | When you link to the dictionary using the wildcard %, use %25 instead of % in your html file. Otherwise the percent sign and the two following characters are converted to a character you are not searching for. But %25 is converted to %, as desired. Example:
<a href="www.valley-trail.com/dictionary.php?search=a%25&lang=1&exact=on">words beginning with a</a> will access this page
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