Ozetta
Dutch news, in your languageThursday, 24 September 2026No. 16,548

Are You Readerly or Writerly Today?

Trouw17 September · 22:006 days ago

Peter-Arno Coppen and Ton den Boon explore the productive Dutch suffix '-erig', which indicates a tendency toward an action. They illustrate its use with examples like 'flirterig' (inclined to flirt) and pastoral terms, explaining how it adds meanings of repetition, habit, and modality to verbs.

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