Talk:spijten

RFC discussion: September 2009–August 2010
''The following block-quoted text has been moved from Requests for verification. —Ruakh TALK 23:34, 10 August 2010 (UTC)''

 As far as I know this is an impersonal verb, i.e. it only occurs as het spijt me just like "it rain" with an indefinite pronoun. Can the template be altered not to produce non-existant we rain and they rained forms? Also the translation is rather imprecise. "It causes me regret" is closer. Jcwf 23:08, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * So it's a cleanup rather than a verification job. Maybe ask . Mglovesfun (talk) 22:24, 30 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Few if any impersonal verbs in Dutch are strictly impersonal. A construct such as zijn daden speten hem (he regretted his deeds), with an explicit subject, is possible. I've made some changes now, to clarify. —CodeCat 14:19, 11 August 2010 (UTC)