Question: Is it true or false that older Dutch words combine changes in vowel length and vowel quality?
Answer: true

Question: How would you say "sons" in Dutch?
Answer: zonen

Question: Since vowel quality changes might be very slight between dialects, what's the main vowel feature used to differentiate them?
Answer: length

Question: What does the Dutch word "kroes" mean in English?
Answer: mug

Question: What letter represents the sound native English speakers often use for Dutch names with "ij" or "ei" in them?
Answer: y

Question: How many unique phenomes are usually attributed to Dutch?
Answer: three

Question: What's the term we use for the type of sound made for two vowels in words like the Dutch "goud" or "zout"?
Answer: diphthong

Question: What pronunciation did the older Dutch ol/ul/al + dental evolve into?
Answer: ol + dental

Question: What linguistic event in English could we parallel with the Dutch lowering of diphthongs?
Answer: English Great Vowel Shift

Question: In what decade did the Dutch diphthong lowering occur?
Answer: 1970s

Question: The lowering of diphthongs is intriguing partly because it's associated with what single gender?
Answer: women

Question: What researcher posited that the lowering of diphthongs is "natural"?
Answer: Stroop

Question: Which language, in addition to German, did Stroop use to compare Dutch with when stating that the diphthongs "should" have lowered?
Answer: English

Question: What word did Stroop use to describe the static stage of diphthong pronunciation?
Answer: "intermediate"

Question: What classes in the 16th century sneered at the pronunciation of Dutch by rural people?
Answer: educated classes

Question: What distinct kind of British English does Stroop say has a similar function to Polder Dutch?
Answer: Estuary English

Question: What phenomenon of Dutch pronunciation was brought about by the attitudes of the elite in the 16th century?
Answer: standardisation

Question: What specific type of diphthongs were the less educated Dutch speakers in the countryside using in the 16th century?
Answer: lowered diphthongs

Question: How many genders does standard Dutch use for both natural and grammatical gender?
Answer: three

Question: What gender does the majority of non-Belgian Dutch speakers use instead of the masculine and feminine?
Answer: the common gender

Question: Apart from the common gender in non-Belgian Dutch, what other gender do speakers use?
Answer: neuter

Question: The common/neuter system used in Dutch is a lot like the system used in what other language category?
Answer: Continental Scandinavian languages

Question: In its simplified inflectional grammar, what language is Dutch similar to?
Answer: English

Question: What's the Dutch word for "my"?
Answer: mijn

Question: Over what span of time have the rules for written Dutch become less complicated?
Answer: 100 years

Question: What part of speech does Dutch mostly use cases for?
Answer: pronouns

Question: Which parts of speech aren't normally case-specific in Dutch?
Answer: Nouns and adjectives

Question: In what century long before Dutch did most West Germanic dialects probably lose case inflection?
Answer: 15th

Question: What case no longer used in Dutch is still present in German phrases like "Der Herr des Hauses"?
Answer: genitive

Question: How would you say "the man of the house" in Dutch?
Answer: de heer des huizes

Question: What word described standalone expressions that retain some outdated convention as an exception?
Answer: lexicalized

Question: Which word in the phrase "het jaar des Heren" is a weak noun with a genitive ending added?
Answer: Heren

Question: In what type of Dutch clause does the subject usually follow the conjugated verb?
Answer: interrogative main clause

Question: What's the English type equivalent for the Dutch word order that is an interrogative pronoun/expression, then a verb followed by a subject?
Answer: a wh-question

Question: What type of clause has the same word order in Dutch as a tag question?
Answer: declarative clause

Question: What never changes in a subordinate clause in Dutch?
Answer: word order

Question: What is the literal translation of the Dutch phrase, "Kun jij je pen niet vinden?"
Answer: "Can you your pen not find?"

Question: What word do Dutch speakers use for what we call a "shotgun marriage"?
Answer: moetje

Question: In Dutch, what part of speech does an adjective with a diminutive ending become?
Answer: noun

Question: When the diminutive ending "-tjes" is added to the adverb "even," as what part of speech does it function?
Answer: adverb

Question: What's the Dutch word for "green"?
Answer: groen

Question: With the diminutive ending "-tje" added to the Dutch word for "green," what does the new formation translate to in English?
Answer: rookie

Question: Which diminutive of "bloem" means a "bouquet"?
Answer: bloemetje

Question: What's the Dutch word for "seahorse" that has no non-diminutive form?
Answer: zeepaardje

Question: What Dutch word did their word for "girl" come from that has a totally different meaning?
Answer: meid

Question: What's the Dutch word for the items like shirts and pants that you wear that only exists in a plural form?
Answer: kleertjes

Question: Sometimes uncountable nouns in Dutch get a diminutive ending to make them refer to what, like an ice cream cone?
Answer: a single portion

Question: What language besides Dutch uses the dative case instead of the accusative for pronouns?
Answer: English

Question: In the lone exception to the dative case, which pronoun is prescribed for the third person plural direct object?
Answer: hen

Question: When did the grammarians first draw the line between third person plural pronouns for Dutch?
Answer: 17th century

Question: Since most Dutch speakers don't bother with the hen/hun rule, which of the two most often gets used?
Answer: hun

Question: When speakers get confused about whether to use hen or hun, what interchangeable unstressed form would they probably use?
Answer: ze

Question: How would a Dutch speaker say "doghouse"?
Answer: hondenhok

Question: Is Dutch like or unlike English in its treatment of compound nouns?
Answer: Unlike

Question: "Tree house," which is two words in English, would be what single word in Dutch?
Answer: boomhuis

Question: What language is like Dutch in allowing compounds to be any length?
Answer: German

Question: In English, what usually separates newer compound nouns written in open form?
Answer: spaces

Question: What percentage of loanwords are present in Dutch vocabulary?
Answer: 20%

Question: What language has exerted the most influence on Dutch vocabulary since the 12th century?
Answer: French

Question: What language does Dutch get its second highest percentage of loanwords from?
Answer: Latin

Question: Together, what percentage of Dutch loanwords comes from High and Low German?
Answer: 2.7%

Question: In the loanword sharing between Dutch and English, which language got the higher percentage of loanwords?
Answer: Dutch

Question: How many extra characters does Dutch have in addition to the standard alphabet?
Answer: one

Question: What's the name for the additional character Dutch uses?
Answer: digraph

Question: Because Dutch has many vowel sounds and compound words, what occurs frequently in Dutch spelling?
Answer: doubled letters

Question: What is an example of a Dutch word that has double vowels or consonants five times in a row?
Answer: voorraaddoos

Question: What's the name for the type of accent that Dutch used to mark the difference between the word for "a" or "an" and the word for "one"?
Answer: acute accent

Question: What was Buckingham Palace orginally known as?
Answer: Buckingham House

Question: Who was Buckingham Palace was originally built for?
Answer: Duke of Buckingham

Question: Which king acquired the Buckingham House in 1761?
Answer: King George III