Word
Mijn zus heeft die foto's onlangs gevonden.
Meaning
My sister found those photos recently.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Mijn zus heeft die foto's onlangs gevonden.
hebben
to have
de zus
the sister
vinden
to find
mijn
my
Questions & Answers about Mijn zus heeft die foto's onlangs gevonden.
Where does the word gevonden come from?
It is the past participle of the verb vinden (to find). Just like "find" becomes "found" in English, vinden is an irregular verb in Dutch. Instead of adding a standard -d or -t at the end, the middle vowel changes from "i" to "o", making it gevonden.
Why is gevonden placed at the very end of the sentence?
In Dutch, when you talk about the past using a helper verb (heeft) and a past participle (gevonden), the helper verb takes the normal second position in the sentence. The past participle then gets pushed all the way to the very end, after "those photos recently".
Why is there an apostrophe in foto's?
Why do we use die to mean "those" here?
Die is the demonstrative word you use to point at plural nouns, meaning "those" (or "these"). Because foto's is plural, you must use die. You only use the other word, dat, for singular "het" words.