Questions & Answers about Jullie ouders werken in de stad.
Wait, doesn't jullie mean 'you' (plural)?
Yes, it does! jullie means 'you' (like 'you guys' or 'y'all'), but it is also the possessive word for 'your' when you are talking to multiple people. Unlike English, which has 'you' and 'your', Dutch uses jullie for both.
Do I need to add an -e to jullie since ouders is a plural word?
No, the word jullie never changes. While some possessive words change depending on the noun (like ons becoming onze), jullie is always just jullie, whether the noun that follows is singular, plural, a de word, or a het word.
Why does the verb werken end in -en here?
Because the subject of the sentence is jullie ouders (your parents). Since 'parents' is a plural subject (equivalent to 'they'), the verb takes the plural form. In Dutch, plural verbs almost always look exactly like the full dictionary form (the infinitive).
The word order here is exactly like English. Is it always this simple?
In a basic sentence starting with the subject, yes! The order is Subject (Jullie ouders), Verb (werken), and then the rest (in de stad). However, if you moved in de stad to the beginning of the sentence for emphasis, the verb would still have to come second, swapping places with the subject: In de stad werken jullie ouders.