Breakdown of Op donderdag heb ik tijd voor mijn hobby.
ik
I
hebben
to have
de tijd
the time
op
on
mijn
my
donderdag
Thursday
voor
for (on behalf of)
de hobby
the hobby
Questions & Answers about Op donderdag heb ik tijd voor mijn hobby.
Why do we use op before donderdag?
In Dutch, you use the preposition op to say that something happens on a specific day of the week. This is easy for English speakers to remember because it works exactly like "on" in "on Thursday".
Why is the word order heb ik instead of ik heb?
This happens because the sentence starts with the time phrase Op donderdag. In a standard Dutch main clause, the verb must be in the second position (the V2 rule). Since the first position is taken by the time phrase, the verb heb comes second, and the subject ik is pushed to the third spot.
I noticed donderdag isn't capitalized. Is that a mistake?
It is not a mistake! Unlike in English, days of the week and months of the year are always written with a lowercase letter in Dutch, unless they are the very first word of a sentence.
Is hobby a normal Dutch word?
Yes, Dutch borrows many words from English. The pronunciation is very similar, but keep in mind that if you ever need the plural, it is formed with an apostrophe-s: hobby's.
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