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Dutch language Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speak ...
, the word t () is a contraction of the article "het", meaning "the". 't can be found as a '' tussenvoegsel'', a word that is positioned between a person's first and last
name A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A person ...
. Careful writers should use an
apostrophe The apostrophe (, ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for two basic purposes: * The marking of the omission of one o ...
() in front of the ''t'' – and not confuse it with a left quotation mark () and put a
space Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions. Modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless ...
before the apostrophe.


Examples

* Dirk van 't Klooster * Evert-Jan 't Hoen *
Gerard 't Hooft Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft (; born July 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating t ...
* Haas Visser 't Hooft * in 't Veld (surname) ** Bart Spring in 't Veld (note: surname is "Spring in 't Veld") **
Sophie in 't Veld Sophia Helena "Sophie" in 't Veld (born 13 September 1963) is a Dutch politician (Volt, previously D66). She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2004, and reelected in 2009, 2014 and 2019. She was D66's top candidate for the ...
*
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. (; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemistry, physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemistry, theoretical chemist of his time, Van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobe ...
* John van 't Schip *
Maarten 't Hart Maarten 't Hart (born 25 November 1944 in Maassluis) is a Dutch writer. Trained as a biologist in zoology and ethology at the Leiden University, he taught that subject before becoming a full-time writer in the 1980s, having made his debut as a ...
* Tom van 't Hek * Van 't Hof (surname) * Van 't Wout (surname) * Willem Visser 't Hooft * Youp van 't Hek


See also

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Definite article reduction Definite article reduction (DAR), in linguistics, is the use of a vowel-less form of the definite article ''the'' in Northern dialects of England English, for example in Yorkshire dialect. DAR is often represented by dialect spelling with an apos ...
, a similar contraction in some dialects of English * N-apostrophe, a similar digraph in
Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Pat ...
.


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