Case / Suffix Sticker
What sign sticks to the word?
Betekenis
A visible marker attached to a word that shows role, relation, number, tense, person, case, direction, or other grammatical function.
Zo herken je het
Look for small endings that change the word's role or meaning.
Voorbeelden
-s|-ed|-ing|case endings|plural endings
dogs|walked|house's
The teacher corrected the students' essays.
Visual guide
word + suffix sticker --------------------- dog + -s -> dogs walk + -ed -> walked house + 's -> house's ending = grammar signal
Same job, different coding no ending: dog (context) word: plural marker + dog suffix: dog + -s -> dogs many endings can encode: role, number, time, person
Taaloverzicht
In je moedertaal
Modern Dutch has little noun case; case remains mainly in pronouns and fixed forms.
Hij ziet mij.
He sees me.
In de taal die je leert
English has very little case marking, mainly in pronouns and possessive forms.
She saw him.
he/him = limited case marking in pronouns
Learners from case-rich languages may expect noun endings; learners from case-poor languages may still confuse he/him.
Good transfer potential
This block behaves relatively similarly, so you can transfer intuition more safely between the two languages.