2021年5月2日 · Hij is erg dik So in the first two sentences you refer back to "de krant" using "het" but in the last example you refer back using "hij" because "dik" is an adjective not a noun. So this rule applies regardless of whether the object you are referring to is a de-woord or a het-woord - only if it is a person you can use "hij" or "zij" in these cases.

2023年5月20日 · So I default to hij. I do know that there are two categories that are female: cities and ships. An option is to use "ie". It is the de-emphasized form of "hij", similar to "ze" is of "zij". It is however not official and only used in speech. But once you start listening, you can hear it being used everywhere! Verbruikt hij veel versus verbruikt ...

2022年7月6日 · It's not that easy. Dutch has two sets of personal pronouns, one for unstressed and another for stressed positions, but the sets are not complete. 'Ik' does not really have an unstressed version. 'Hij' has an unstressed version 'ie' that is generally not used in written language and only occurs when followed by a verb or a conjunction.

2015年8月30日 · Meanwhile in the Netherlands, as others have said, there's massive overextension using "hij" even for words that are more or less clearly of female gender in nature: Kijk daar, een bij! Hij heeft me gestoken. Logically, all worker bees and queens are feminine. Therefore, masculine forms seem odd. They're being reinterpreted though.

2021年12月18日 · I found here that you use "het" with het words and "hem/hij" with de words (I assume that "hij" simply changes to "zij" when the object is plural) This almost made sense to me, but "schoenen", being plural, should get "de", so according to that rule "Het zijn schoenen" doesn't seem to make sense either.