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Why do people say hoi allemaal if everybody is iedereen?
Why do people say hoi allemaal if everybody is iedereen?
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"Hello all" and "hello everyone" works in English, too.
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We would use hoi allemaal if we want to say hoi to a group so we don't have to go up to everyone to greet them one by one. For example we would use this if there is a big family birthday party and we came late so there's already a lot of people there and you just want a quick and easy hello to everyone.
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@MCeless yes it does! but you can't gramatically use it in the same way as 'iedereen'. We could say hallo iedereen instead of hallo allemaal, that doesn't matter. however, in the case of 'iedereen in deze kamer draagt dezelfde kleding ' ( everybody in this room is wearing the same clothes) iedereen can not be replaced by allemaal without changing other parts of the sentence too. I hope you can find some more explanation about the difference of iedereen/allemaal in a schoolbook because I wouldn't know how to explain it better sorry.
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It's probably short for
* Hallo, jullie allemaal.
* Hello to you all.
* Hello, y'all (Texan 😆)
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