Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Afrikaans/reply (14)

That's much different from what happens in Afrikaans though. I'm talking about things that distinguish the two words spelled in Dutch. One becomes when the ending is removed, the other. From the spelling alone, you can't tell the difference. It's purely based on stress which the spelling doesn't indicate. This also happens in reverse with Dutch and Afrikaans nouns, and also with the present participle of Afrikaans verbs, or with the inflected form of adjectives. So essentially, you would not be able to use "e" for all of those cases anyway; you'd have to give the full form.