Refers to a neuter noun (person, animal, thing or abstract) · he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is neuter [das]) · she (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a feminine person, is neuter [das])
köken: From Middle High German ëȥ, from Old High German iȥ, from Proto-Germanic *it (“it”). Compare English it, which instead descends from Proto-Germanic *hit (“it”).
that (distal demonstrative pronoun) · this (proximal demonstrative pronoun) · it (alternative form of ce as a subject of être in tenses other than the present and imperfect indicative)
köken: Syncopic contraction of cela (“that”), from ce + -là. Compare French ceci (“this”).
aile: à ça oui, accrochez-moi-ça, ça a été, ça alors, ça baigne, ça biche, ça bide, ça boume, ça comme, ça commence à bien faire
there (can refer to any place, used when not emphasizing the distance to the speaker, see usage notes) · there (used in more constructions than in English, often not translated) · pronominal adverb form of het: it; him, her, them
köken: Weak form of der, the unstressed form of daar ("there")
Er is een communicatiefout opgetreden.
Wat is er gebeurd?
Er is een kat bij mij in de buurt die elke dag naar de supermarkt gaat om wat aandacht en lekkers te krijgen van de klanten.
köken: From older hec, from Proto-Italic *hoke, from *ho (from Proto-Indo-European *gʰo (“indeed”, emphatic clitic)) + *ke (from *ḱe (“here”, deictic particle)). Reconstructed forms with o are made likely by the Old Latin form hoi (“this”). The feminine and neuter inflected forms were created in analogy to quī, quae, quod. In the Italic languages only Faliscan has a clear cognate inflected pronoun: hac…
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