"All children want to play."
Translation:Alle kinderen willen spelen.
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I can't understand what is the difference between "alles" and "alle", someone is able to explain it to me?
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I would say: Alle kinderen houden ervan om te spelen, it sounds better, I think so =)
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It's grammatically correct, I'd say, but it means All children love playing.
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Dutch is just one of those languages that use infinitive(?) form over breaking it into two words i would guess…
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Tot= until
Keep in mind that willen is a modal verb, and as such, it requires a bare infinitive (in this case, spelen).
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No infinitive? Afrikaans uses om/te to denote this, and I'm surprised to see Dutch have a simpler form of the infinitive.
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Why would "om te spelen" not work? Shouldn't it mean the same thing?
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Because willen is a modal verb, and so, it's followed by a bare infinitive (verb without te before it).
Note that om te implies certain intentionality, you can think of it as in order to.
