Talk:hoe komt het dat

While it is a common phrase, it is not idiomatic. komen has a meaning "to happen, to arise" which I just added. With that meaning, this means literally "how does it happen that" or "how come that". 23:30, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Maybe a translation would be how comes it (which should be a blue link IMHO) --Sister Nana (talk) 00:44, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * "How does it come that he always get the best assignment?" is decidedly non-idiomatic in English. One could say "How does it come about that ?", though CodeCat has provided a more natural way. Probably the most idiomatic, albeit informal, way is "How come he gets the best assignment?". Note that that is omitted. I don't think it is even optional. DCDuring TALK 22:19, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * But can't be used in this sense generally, only with . In Dutch, on the other hand, the sense is general to all uses of : although it is most frequently used with  as a dummy pronoun, it can also be used with other subjects.  22:34, 6 March 2013 (UTC)