Dutch Sentence Structure – Part 4: Om te + Infinitive & Giving Instructions
Dutch Sentence Structure – Part 4: Om te + Infinitive & Giving Instructions
An NT2 workbook for A1–A2 learners
How do you say why you're doing something in Dutch? And how do you give instructions without sounding rude? This final part of the series covers both, straight to the point.
This 18-page workbook teaches you how to express purpose and goals with om ... te, which verbs take (om) te and which take only te (with a simple "why check" to always choose correctly), and how om te works after adjectives and words like genoeg and te veel.
Then it tackles something most courses skip entirely: how Dutch people actually give instructions. From polite requests to direct commands, and how native speakers soften them with little words like eens, even, maar, and toch.
Includes 8 varied exercises:
- fill-ins
- sentence building
- making and softening commands
- translation
- correcting real student mistakes
Plus a complete answer key.
Created by me: Renée van Zandvoort, founder of Dutch and You, based on patterns I see daily, teaching adult NT2 students.
Part 4 of 4 — the series is now complete!