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This sentence is grammatically incorrect in English; it should be: "He is Dutch and from Amsterdam."
613
We don't say "He is a Dutch from Amsterdam" in English. We say "He is a Dutchman from Amsterdam." We could also say "He is Dutch and from Amsterdam", but that is a different sentence.
130
Or add the comma: "He is Dutch, from Amsterdam."
Or add the conjunction: "He is Dutch and from Amsterdam."
Or use a the noun form rather than the adjective: "He is a Dutchman from Amsterdam."
613
We say he is a "Dutchman" in English, or he is Dutch. We could say he is a "Dutch person", it is not grammatically incorrect, but people wouldn't usually say it that way.
613
In vowelled text, the sukuun is written over a consonant to show that no vowel follows it.
497
Where is the extra "ēē" coming from on the end of Amsterdam and how are we to know when to use it?