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Dutch orthography

Dutch uses the acute accent to mark stress and the diaeresis (trema) to disambiguate diphthongs/triphthongs. Occasionally, other diacritics are used in loanwords. Accents are not necessarily placed on capital letters (for example, the word Eén at the beginning of a sentence) unless the whole word is written in capitals.

Acute accents may be used to emphasise a word in a phrase, on the vowel in the stressed syllable. If the vowel is written as a digraph, an acute accent is put on both parts of the digraph. Although that rule includes ij, the acute accent on the j is frequently omitted (resulting in íj instead of íj́), as putting an acute accent on a j is problematic in most word processing software. If the vowel is written as more than two letters, the accent is put on the first two vowel letters.
Stress on a short vowel, written with only one letter, is occasionally marked with a grave accent: Kàn jij dat? (equivalent to the example below), wèl. However, it is technically incorrect to do so.
Additionally, the acute accent may also be used to mark different meanings of various words, including een/één (a(n)/one), voor/vóór (for/before), vóórkomen/voorkómen (to occur / to prevent), and vérstrekkend/verstrékkend (far-reaching/issuing), as shown in the examples below.
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  • abcdefghas quoted7 years ago
    et ik al van te voren
    geëxalteerde
    één
    èn
    Rivièra
    Rivièra
    dè vriend
    Wie aan háár dagboek een wonder hoopt te beleven, moet ik al van te voren
    Dat was háár ijsje. That was her ice cream.
    Ik wil het nú! I want it now!
  • Gerasim Ambartsumyanhas quoted7 years ago
    xalteerde
    één
    èn
    Rivièra
    Rivièra
    dè vriend
    Wie aan háár dagboek een wonder hoopt te beleven, moet ik al van te voren
    Dat was háár ijsje. That was her ice cream.
    Ik wil het nú! I want
  • Gerasim Ambartsumyanhas quoted7 years ago
    Kán jij dat? Can you (are you able to) do that?
    Tóé nou! Come on!

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