Word
Sluit het restaurant meteen!
Meaning
Close the restaurant immediately!
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Sluit het restaurant meteen!
het restaurant
the restaurant
meteen
immediately
sluiten
to close
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Questions & Answers about Sluit het restaurant meteen!
Why is there no word for 'you' in this sentence?
Because this is a command (the imperative mood). Just like in English, when you tell someone to do something, you don't need to include a subject pronoun like 'jij' or 'je'. You simply start with the verb.
How do we get the form sluit?
To make a command in Dutch, you use the stem of the verb. The full verb (infinitive) is sluiten (to close). If you remove the -en ending, you are left with the stem: sluit.
Why does meteen come at the end of the sentence?
In Dutch, time words like meteen (immediately) generally come after the specific object. Because het restaurant is a specific, known object (it has het in front of it), meteen is placed right after it.
How would I make this command sound more polite or formal?
To make a command formal, you can add the formal 'you' (u) directly after the verb. When using u, the verb needs a -t at the end. Since sluit already ends in a -t, the spelling stays the same, becoming: Sluit u het restaurant meteen!