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== Orthography ==
==== Major changes from Hollandic
In many cases older orthography and spelling is preserved from early modern Dutch. Some regions in Tussenland did not adopt Amerikaner orthography before it was standardized in 1910. As a result, some words of historical value retain their Hollandic spelling. An example of this is the city of Eenheydwyck, which is not written as Înheydswÿck.
* '''ei
* '''aa → ae''' (Amerikaans → Amerikaens)
▲k -> ck (boek -> boeck), only when occurring at the end of the syllable
▲ui -> uy (fruit -> fruyt)
* '''In other''' cases double vowels (long vowels) are reduced and replaced with by a vowel with a diacritic.▼
* '''uu → ue'''
* '''ee → î'''
▲d -> dt (stad -> stadt), only when at end of syllable
* '''oe → ü'''
* Yet in other cases constants are doubled.▼
▲f -> v (kalf -> kalv), onlf at the end of words
* '''l → ll'''
▲In other cases double vowels (long vowels) are reduced and replaced with by a vowel with a diacritic.
▲oo -> ö (Voorlandt -> Vörlandt)
▲Yet in other cases constants are doubled.
▲m -> mm (Komen -> Komme)
== Grammar ==
In Amerikaens noun genders are removed; the 'The' article in Amerikaens would simply be "De" for all nouns, instead of De/Het in IRL Dutch. This occurs without exceptions across all dialects. This corresponds to a series of grammar shifts in Amerikaens where grammatical gender is minimized as much as possible both in nouns and in adjectives which also don't conjugate for gender in Amerikaens.
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
=== Pronouns and Verb Conjugations ===
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|'''Infinitive'''
|ît
|eten
|(to) eat
|-
|'''Present'''
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|'''Past Progressive'''
|Ik dîd ît.
|Ik was
|I was eating.
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|I will be eating.
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{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="4" |'''
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|'''Tense'''
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|'''Infinitive'''
|kück
|koken
|(to) cook
|-
|'''Present'''
|Ik
|Ik
|I
|-
|'''Past'''
|Ik hab
|Ik
|I
|-
|'''Future'''
|Ik wil/zhal
|Ik zal
|I will
|-
|'''Past Progressive'''
|Ik dîd
|Ik was
|I was
|-
|'''Present Progressive'''
|Ik doe
|Ik ben aan het
|I am
|-
|'''Future Progressive'''
|Ik wil/zhal doe
|
|I will be
|}
== Vocabulary ==
Several Words in Amerikaens are borrowed from English, French/Walloon, and Native American origins.
=== Words of English Origin ===
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