Breakdown of De winkel is niet duur en de jas is goedkoop.
zijn
to be
en
and
niet
not
de winkel
the shop
de jas
the coat
duur
expensive
goedkoop
cheap
Questions & Answers about De winkel is niet duur en de jas is goedkoop.
The lesson is about using geen to negate words. Why does this sentence use niet instead of geen?
Could I use geen if I changed the sentence to say 'It is not an expensive shop'?
Yes! If you change the sentence to focus on the noun, you would use geen. You would say Het is geen dure winkel (It is not an expensive shop). Because winkel (shop) is a noun, geen is the correct choice for that phrasing.
Is there a trick to remembering the word goedkoop (cheap)?
Yes! If you break it apart, goed means good and koop means buy or purchase. So, something that is goedkoop is literally a good buy, which makes it cheap.
Why isn't the word order swapped in the second half of the sentence after en?
The word en (and) is a connecting word that just glues two normal sentences together without messing up their word order. Both de winkel is niet duur and de jas is goedkoop get to keep their standard subject-verb order.
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