None of these take a hyphen in English. Simple.
Category Archives: Advanced
Arithmetic
Hold on, that’s the same in all languages… isn’t it?
Ambition
Ambition isn’t always purely about positive goals. There can be overtones of being hell-bent on achieving them: being greedy, self-serving and unscrupulous.
The muscles of the legs of the sprinter
Using possessive forms and adjectival nouns rather than “of the” can make your writing a lot more succinct.
Quartermaster
A quartermaster is a low or mid-level military administrator responsible for supplies and equipment, not some kind of high-level official trailblazer for projects.
Ordinal numbers
All ordinal numbers can be written in Dutch with a superscript “e” but that isn’t the case in English: first, second and third each need the last two letters to be used.
Not only… but also
The phrase “but also” refers back to an earlier part of the sentence (usually flagged with “not only”) to add extra or even contrasting information. It can’t start a sentence or stand alone.
Accents for emphasis
Adding acute accents to the vowels of a word to signifiy that it should be emphasized is a purely Dutch typographical convention.
Hitting the right register
Dutch is rich in synonyms (often pairs with Germanic and Latinate roots). The nuances of usage aren’t quite the same – and it’s an issue in English too.
Qualitative
In English, this word is almost only ever used as the counterpart of “quantitative”: it doesn’t mean “high-quality”.
Advanced Dunglish 