Gronings
Facts
- Language: Gronings
- Alternate names: Groningen, Grunnings, Grunnegs, Grönnegs
- Language code: gos
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, North Sea Germanic, Altsächsisch, Middle-Modern Low German, Low German, West Low German, North Low Saxon
- Number of speakers: 592,000
- Script: Latin
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Introduction
Gronings is a collective name for some Friso-Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland. The dialect is characterized by a typical accent and vocabulary, which differ strongly from the other Low Saxon dialects.
The Gronings dialects are a kind of mix between two languages: Old Frisian (East Frisian) and Middle Low German
The verb
Sample verb: wezen 'to be'
| Present | Past | Perfect | ||
| Sg.1 | ik | bin | was; waar | heb west |
| Sg.2 | doe | bist | wasst; waarst | hest west |
| Sg.3 | hai | is | was; waar | het west |
| Pl.1 | wie | binn | waren/wazzen | hebben west |
| Pl.2 | joe | |||
| Pl.3 | zai | |||
Sample verb: Hebben 'to have'
| Present | Past | Perfect | ||
| Sg.1 | ik | heb | haar | heb had |
| Sg.2 | doe | hest | haarst | hest had |
| Sg.3 | hai | het | haar | het had |
| Pl.1 | wie | hebben | haren | hebben had |
| Pl.2 | joe | |||
| Pl.3 | zai | |||