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Add verb tenses table, and a small tongue twister
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In Amerikaens Hollandic Dutch words that end in -en (excluding en and een) the n is dropped in most cases (tevreden > tevrede). In Amerikaens, Hollandic Dutch words that end in -de (excluding de) the e is dropped in most cases (zeide > zeyd, zijde > zÿd). In Amerikaens the corruption middle-word consonant corruptions are common such as -tie into -sie (politie -> polisie).
=== Pronouns and Verb Conjugations ===
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="5" rowspan="1" |Pronouns and Verb Conjugations
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|Het
|It is
|}
=== Tenses ===
In Amerikaens, verbs do not conjugate differently depending on the subject.
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="4" |'''ît''' (eat)
|-
|'''Tense'''
| colspan="1" |'''Amerikaens'''
|'''Dutch'''
|'''English'''
|-
|'''Infinitive'''
|ît
|eet
|eat
|-
|'''Present'''
|Ik ît.
|Ik eet.
|I eat.
|-
|'''Past'''
|Ik hab ît.
|Ik at.
|I ate.
|-
|'''Future'''
|Ik wil/zhal ît.
|Ik zal eten.
|I will eat.
|-
|'''Past Progressive'''
|Ik dîd ît.
|Ik was het aan het eten.
|I was eating.
|-
|'''Present Progressive'''
|Ik doe ît.
|Ik ben aan het eten.
|I am eating.
|-
|'''Future Progressive'''
|Ik wil/zhal doe ît
|
|I will be eating.
|}
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# Bufaloo (American Bison)
# Kütü (Knife)
== Toungue Twisters ==
* Ik wil ît it if it is în weynig bît. (''I will eat it if it is an small beetroot'')
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