"All children want to play."

Translation: Alle kinderen willen spelen.

[Nobsyde]

I can't understand what is the difference between "alles" and "alle", someone is able to explain it to me?

[Lenkvist]

• Alles - Everything
• Alle - All

[Franspen87]

If I said Alle kinderen houden van spelen, is also good?

[UnitarioRe]

I would say: Alle kinderen houden ervan om te spelen, it sounds better, I think so =)

[MentalPinball]

It's grammatically correct, I'd say, but it means All children love playing.

[westcoastkid707]

Why dont you use 'tot'??

[mangakoibito]

Dutch is just one of those languages that use infinitive(?) form over breaking it into two words i would guess…

[MentalPinball]

Tot= until

Keep in mind that willen is a modal verb, and as such, it requires a bare infinitive (in this case, spelen).

[as2907]

We haven't been taught infinitive yet.

[esposch]

No infinitive? Afrikaans uses om/te to denote this, and I'm surprised to see Dutch have a simpler form of the infinitive.

[MentalPinball]

spelen is a bare infinitive.

[SilentOcean13]

Why is it false to say "Elk kinderen willen spelen"?

[MentalPinball]

Elk=each

[Cam_and_Alex]

Why would "om te spelen" not work? Shouldn't it mean the same thing?

[MentalPinball]

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.