Idiom
- Idiom
- De handen uit de mouwen steken
- Meaning
- Iemand helpen/goed werken/aan het werk beginnen
- Dialect
- Leuvens
- ID
- 4970
Properties
Gloss and translation
Mostly acceptable
De
handen
uit
de
mouwen
steken
to help someone, to work hard, to start working (Lit.: to put one's hands out of one's sleeves)
- Alienability of possession
- Inalienable
- How is possession expressed?
- External possession
- Direct object type
- Definite plural
- General structure
- V DO PP
- Is the DO modified (by an adjective)?
- No
- Aspect
- Simple
- Tense
- Present
- Voice
- Active
Possession
Structure
Verbal properties
Sentences
Mostly acceptable
Acceptability varies by speaker
Acceptability varies by speaker
Acceptability varies by speaker
Acceptability varies by speaker
Mostly not acceptable