Understand spoken language

Separable verbs

Submitted by admin on 11 July 2019

Dutch, of course, has a lot of separable verbs. For example a verb like afhangen can split the part which means depends into hangt and af. In that case, how do we do the literal breakdown in a phrase like "het hangt van het bedrijft af"?

1. Create the infinitive entry

The first step is to make sure that we have an entry for the infinitive:

Ability to see and reset level of words and phrases

Submitted by admin on 28 June 2019

I'm pleased to announce that you can now see the level that any word or phrase has reached and you can also reset that level.

You may know from FAQ about levels for the words and phrases that as you get to know words and phrases better (as shown by getting questions right) they are moved to higher and higher levels, and so are gradually asked less and less frequently.

Using "Auto Breakdown"

Submitted by admin on 19 June 2019

Auto Breakdown is a feature which allows you to more easily add a complete literal breakdown for a word or phrase.

Before using this feature, it is important that you are fully skilled at doing the Literal Breakdown manually, so that you can check everything is correct.

The feature is available on the "Auto Breakdown" tab. In the following example, the phrase has not been broken down at all yet.