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Eten jullie brood met kaas?

Eten jullie brood met kaas?
Do you eat bread with cheese?
From Lesson 16:Noun negation (geen)·Dutch

Questions & Answers about Eten jullie brood met kaas?

If I want to answer "No, we don't eat bread with cheese," how do I use geen here?
You would say: Nee, wij eten geen brood met kaas. The word geen is used to negate nouns that don't have a specific article. Since it's just brood (bread) and not het brood (the bread), you must use geen instead of niet.
Where is the word for "Do" in this question?
Dutch doesn't use helping verbs like "do" or "does" to ask questions. Instead, you just swap the order of the subject and the verb. The statement jullie eten (you eat) simply flips to become the question eten jullie? (do you eat?).
Why does this sentence use the full verb eten instead of eet?
The subject of the sentence is jullie, which is the plural "you" (like "you all" or "you guys"). In Dutch, all plural subjects take the plural verb form, which is exactly the same as the full dictionary form of the verb (eten).
Why aren't there any articles like de or het before brood and kaas?
When talking about uncountable foods in a general sense, Dutch leaves out the articles, exactly like English does. You just say "bread with cheese", not "the bread with the cheese", so in Dutch it is simply brood met kaas.

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