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Dutch: Is it possible to hypenate these 2 words?

 
 
macmate
 
Reply Thu 9 Dec, 2004 09:08 pm
Hi All

As captioned, is it possible to hypenate the following words? If so, where should I include the hypen?

1) Openingsdocumenten
2) Portefeuillegroep

i.e. Openings-documenten & Portefeuille-groep.

Thanks in advance!
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Joker271
 
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Reply Mon 20 Dec, 2004 04:03 am
Well... I'm Dutch, but we don't really use those combinations of words... that is to say, I have never heard of them before. Anyway, I looked them up in a dictionary, and they were not in it. As a last resort, I typed both possibilities in Word to see what its spell check would do, and according to that same spell check, you can write them without a hypen:

1. openingsdocumenten
2. portefeuillegroep

But I'm not sure... are you certain that these are the words you need?

Stefanie
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Roland2007
 
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Reply Wed 7 Feb, 2007 04:08 pm
I know this is an old topic, but I see there hasn't been given an answer yet.

The words 'openingsdocumenten' and 'portefeuillegroep' are combinationwords where 2 words are joined together. Maybe they are not in a dictionary as such, but you can use them anyway.

Hyphenation is possible in more than one way. I will show you where to hyphenate using dashes:

o-pe-nings-do-cu-men-ten
por-te-feuil-le-groep

Good luck.
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