Homework installment
- just eating another marshmallow

Later on you showed a tourist brochure dealing with Westerwolde. In it there was this picture of a canopy bed, which in Danish is 'himmelseng' (sort of 'heaven bed'). What do you call it?

In Dutch it is 'hemelbed'. Easypeasy, or?
Here is your first exam: "Ik zou graag in een hemelbed willen liggen." What does it mean and how do you pronounce it correctly?

The meaning is the easy part, adriverhoef.
"Ik zou graag in een hemelbed willen liggen."
”Ich will gern?/möchte? in ein Himmelbett liegen”
means
”Jeg vil gerne ligge i en himmelseng”
”I would like to lie in a canopy bed”
It sounds like boasting, but I only used Google Translate as a key, checking that my assumption was right.
Pushing aside the dreams that this sentence whips up concentrating on the subject matter
The sequence of the words in Dutch is more like German than like English or Danish. In fact the English and the Danish sequences are identical twins in this case.
I note that your nouns are not spelled with a capital first letter as in German – which is a nice simplification. That capital letter makes you need to do an analysis when writing which takes an effort, not unsurmountable, but an still an effort.

Until 1948 we did that too in Denmark. When that 1948-spelling reform was implemented we also created the ’å/Å’ to replace ’aa/Aa’ with the same phonetic quality. The reason, as far as I know, was to put a distance to German. People in the town of Aabenraa not far from the Danish/German border, did not like that spelling of the name (to mention one example), so it became Åbenrå. Now they put up dual language signs in several places in Sønderjylland – southern Jutland – and sometimes they are molested. The ’Heimatgefühl” runs deeper in this area than in Denmark in general, but normally Danish/Germans and German/Danes have an excellent relationship across the border and in the border regions. In 1920 – as part of the measures taken after WW I there was a plebicite in the area where a portion of the land was voted ’back to Denmark’ and the border was fixed accordingly. Last year I visited Danevirke Museum and I was fascinated by the collection of posters made at that occasion. Many were very direct in their message. PC (Political Correctness) was not invented at that time. It was clean-cut Propaganda from both camps.

As for saying/pronouncing "Ik zou graag in een hemelbed willen liggen." Sighhh ….
Well, a lot of Dutch farmers bought farms in Jutland, and are splendidly integrated and speak Danish so well that you have a hard time telling even trace of an accent, so maybe the opposite is doable also

Maria Stenz singing the somewhat disillousioned
Hvor er alle drømmene du drømte?
Songtekst
EDIT: Corrected 'vote' into the past tense 'voted'
- put one line in italics while I was at it

Intermezzo installment
- fleeing from the keyboard commands tonight
Yes!
And you’re kind enough to answer more of my questions than I could hope for.
And you even add things on your own initiative. I like that.
Do you want me to turn down my
– ahem!, I admit – interrogation?

Hvem har du kysset i din gadedør lille Ann Mari?
Whom Have You Kissed at Your Front Door Little Ann Mari?
Songtekst – and it’s difficult but very smart; I always liked it a lot.

Going to the theatre soon, leaving the combat zone to you and whomever has the courage to enter. After all it is a public thread which we happen to have monopolized to a large extend ....
And as usual: to be continued

Indeed, in the Netherlands, Adri (or Adrie) is a unisex name. This is true for many more Dutch names, here is a small selection. In the meantime I'll keep you in suspense.

(Why do you want to know?)

Where does the name Adri come from? It seems that the name Adri comes from Adrianus. Here is another Dutch source. It's short for Adriaan. The most popular Dutch nicknames (first names), historically, in recent history may most probably be:

male   | female
-------+-------
Jan    | Annie
Piet   | Bep
Henk   | Marie(tje)
Peter  | Mien
Hans   | Willie
Kees   | Alie
Wim    | Corrie
Cor    | Lenie
Gerard | Greetje
Gerrit | Tinie

Yes, a lot, don't we?
Oh yes, to my surprise, as I got older I met other people named Adri or Adrie, of both sexes. Indeed, you would expect Adri = male and Adrie = female, but no-o-o-o-o, totally unpredictable. Here are some (Dutch) examples …
Female Adri: http://en.gravatar.com/a3berg
Male Adri: http://www.achtmaal.info/team/adri-van-hooijdonk/
Female Adrie: https://twitter.com/adriejaarsma
Male Adrie: https://www.aaaro.nl/page/4056/a-g-adrie-van-der-maas

Most of the time, yes, although, when boys are little, they may be called Jantje, Pietje, Klaasje, Keesje, etc. But still … it isn't a rule of thumb, as we had TV-stars Swiebertje and Malle Pietje and I know an older man named Jantje.

Oh yessirree, very much so: Corrie van Gorp and Corry Konings and ESC-winner Corry Brokken.

It is, it is.
(pronounced as Bay Yay = B.J.?)
Yeah, well … Our king is called Willem-Alexander, sometimes shortened as Willy by Lucky TV, we have Willy Alberti and there are of course also females called Willy (example).
Well, what can I say, Dutch has its grammar rules, also for plurals.
Dutch is also based on sounds. Short and long vowels. We have many 'voweled' digraphs: aa, au, ee, ei, eu, ie, ij, oe, oo, ou, ui, uu. They are long vowels and mostly all pronounced differently. Short vowels are a e i u o, which you already guessed, of course. Sometimes these shorties are pronounced as a long vowel, e.g. at the end of a word: oma, Enschede, ski, pipo, menu.
Well, you already called me Mr Verhoef and I didn't 'tegensputter' (grumble) nor 'tegenspartel' (struggle).

In closing I would like to mention that I know 'randgebied': in the context that you describe it's probably near, on or beyond the edges of what is socially acceptable.

Ticking off issues and new finds to be analyzed installment
- to my undivided pleasure you answered all three oustanding questions from my initial sifting through tons of woords/woorden
#1 Scruples

The Dutch word "scrupule" has only one meaning: conscientious objection.

Hey, we could build a world of perfect harmony
- and I think the only thing to be added here would be that you have a singularum in addition to the plural. We only have plural 'skrupler'. Little stones in you sandals migrating to hurt that special place in your brain in tandem. Are Danes worser people than Dutchmen since they are not allowed to have just ONE scruple?
#2 Hemelbed
Comprehensively & intensely covered - I thought! until I took the time to LISTEN! 'heymobæt' I have once and for all shelfed my secret dream of plan of some sort of heavenbed, just some romantic mosquito netting in the ceiling. No-no. A normal bed will do.
#3 Vacation/Travel
Thank you for letting me in on places you have been to. I assume you wanted to link to Google Maps showing where Stavelot is, but the link refuses to work. I have had that with Google Maps links as well. Sometimes you can, sometimes not. The Mettlach link falls in the 'you can' ditch.
Stavelot looks (looking at Google Map's pictures) as a place where you can hike and relax. On the other hand there also seems to be a race track. There are interesting old buildings, a castle/fortress? where excavations seem to take place. A trail that could be a chairlift seems to climb a mountainside in a straight line between the trees suggesting skiing in the wintertime, and in the valley you have a lively river, a waterfall, and I think it must be a Stausee.
Mettlach offers similar attractions just to a more dramatic degree with the 'gooseneck' (Saarschleife) and the cantilevered viewing platform.
Nederland looks like water arranged in a pattern, and I see 'Ossenzijl' and IJsselham.
Berlin is very different from those places. So a Berlin WelcomeCard is really handy. I agree: unlimited public transportation of all kinds and stripes is good to have in eine Grossstadt (I know it should be spelled with that double-s character, but I don't want to challenge the Forum posting function more than necessary.

I don't want it to sound as an interrogation again, but what did you choose to see/do in Berlin?
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This should finish the first pick-up installment inclusive of unavoidable addendums ...
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Time for moving onwards:

- 'behoefte' means 'need', indeed. (Also, the Dutch verb 'hoeven' means 'to need'. But let's not get into that.)

Why?

- 'hoef' is also a donkey's hoof and also belongs to other 'hoefdieren' (ungulates) (Danish: hovdyr; German: Huftier).
But that's not it. I believe 'hoef' in this case comes from 'hoef' or 'hoeve' (English: farm(house), German: (Bauern)hof). The pronunciation of the Dutch 'hoef' is the same as Huf in German and hoof in English.

I have listened carefully to 'hoef'. It is as if it takes some energy saying it. It does for me. Still it is a zanft woord.

In Haarlem they have several 'hofjes'. They don't have the 'e', but their lay-out may be like a four-winged farm. Besides they have the 'je/jes' diminutive. So now we have hoef, hoeve, and hof not to mention the hoefs/hoefen of the feet of the hoefdieren. I dare not go into any genetive yet. The ways the words walk are wonderous. In Danish we do - as you looked up - have 'hov' which also has an additional meaning, which I mentioned: 'oops!' but it furthermore a part of 'hoveri' which comes from old Danish 'hov' meaning a farm of a certain size where peasants were required to work - do 'hoveriarbejde' as part of their payment of rent and the use of a parcel of land to the proprietor of the large farm. 'Hov' has also become 'hof' the word for the monarch's court.
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EDIT II: Repairing ''heymobæt' here - but not in the text ^^^ up there - into 'heymobæt' which it was before I hit the Preview.