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15.3.4.Other cases
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This section briefly mentions two other types of derived nouns formed by unproductive suffixation processes. As shown in example (242), some prepositions can be turned into nouns by adding the diminutive ending –je or one of its allomorphs. All the resulting nouns are fully lexicalized and thus, by definition, do not involve inheritance of argument structure.

242
a. om ‘around’
a'. ommetje ‘stroll’
b. uit ‘out (of)’
b'. uitje ‘outing’
c. toe ‘after’
c'. toetje ‘desert’
d. tussendoor ‘in between’
d'. tussendoortje ‘snack’
e. vooraf ‘beforehand’
e'. voorafje ‘appetizer’

It is quite common to use a numeral as the basis of noun formation. In most cases, a suffix is used, as in (243a), although bare numerals can also be used as nouns, as shown in (243b); cf. Section 20.1.

243
a. tweeling ‘twin’, tiental ‘ten/dozen’, tientje ‘tenner’
b. een zes(je) ‘a (meager) six’, een twee ‘a two’, etc.
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