Dutchinflected

Dutchinflected is a term used in linguistics and language technology to describe the set of inflectional forms associated with the Dutch language. It is commonly applied in grammar descriptions, corpus annotation, and computational tasks that require recognition and generation of inflected forms. The term is sometimes used to refer to datasets, algorithms, or schemas that encode Dutch morphology for research and tools.

Noun and determiner inflection: Dutch has gendered definite articles (de for common gender and het for neuter) and does not mark case on nouns. Plural formation typically involves suffixes such as -en or -s, with several nouns undergoing vowel changes in the plural. Adjectives inflect according to the definite or indefinite context and the determiner, with strong and weak inflection patterns depending on whether a definite article is present.

Verb inflection: Verbs are conjugated for person and number in the present tense, while past tense forms are generally formed with a stem change or suffix in the past. The perfect tense combines an auxiliary verb (hebben or zijn) with a past participle. Dutch also features modal verbs, separable verbs, and multiple infinitive forms. Inflectional patterns include irregular verbs and stem changes that affect the present and past tense forms.

Uses: In natural language processing, Dutchinflected resources support morphological analysis, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging, and generation of inflected word forms for Dutch language models. They may reference morphological dictionaries, annotation schemes, or lexicons used to map surface forms to lemmas and grammatical features.

See also: Dutch language, Dutch grammar, inflection, morphology, natural language processing.