Idiom
- Idiom
- Iemand onder de handen nemen
- Meaning
- Waarheid zeggen
- Dialect
- Leuvens
- ID
- 4971
Properties
Gloss and translation
Mostly acceptable
Iemand
onder
de
handen
nemen
to tell (someone) the truth (Lit.: to take someone under one's hands)
- Alienability of possession
- Inalienable
- How is possession expressed?
- External possession
- Animacy of the open position
- Animate
- Direct object type
- Definite
- General structure
- V DO PP
- Is the DO modified (by an adjective)?
- No
- Open position
- DO
- Aspect
- Simple
- Tense
- Present
- Voice
- Active
Possession
Structure
Verbal properties
Sentences
Mostly acceptable
Acceptability varies by speaker
Acceptability varies by speaker