Thread:User talk:CodeCat/"Loan Oversetting"/reply

It's probably best to look at the structure of the word first. comes from +. The latter in turn derives from, which finally is closely tied to. So you would need to follow this structure in English too.

However, the first hurdle is already that English uses a slightly different root word,. The second is that English does not have a noun paired with this word in the same way that Dutch has, unless you use. But this doesn't allow an adjective to be derived from it in the same way, something meaning "of or related to understanding"... just doesn't really cut it.

Another approach is to look for synonyms of any of the intermediate steps. Starting from the end, you might translate with, and following the process then gives  and. But you can also translate directly, giving, and then of course you simply end up with  which is a perfectly good translation of the Dutch. :)