Word
De mooie planten bloeien in onze tuin.
Meaning
The beautiful plants bloom in our garden.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of De mooie planten bloeien in onze tuin.
in
in
de plant
plant
mooi
beautiful
onze
our (de-words, plurals)
Questions & Answers about De mooie planten bloeien in onze tuin.
Why does mooi get an -e at the end here?
Because planten is a plural noun. Plural nouns always use the article de, and adjectives placed before a de word get an -e added to them, making it mooie.
Why do we say onze tuin instead of ons tuin?
The word for garden is de tuin. For de words and all plural words, the Dutch word for 'our' is onze. You only use ons with singular het words.
This lesson uses in for seasons like in de lente (in the spring). Is it the exact same word for places like in onze tuin?
Yes! Just like in English, the Dutch preposition in does double duty. You use the exact same word to talk about when something happens, like a season, and where it happens, like a physical location.
Are the words bloeien (to bloom) and bloemen (flowers) related?
Yes, they belong to the same word family. De bloem is the noun for flower, and bloeien is the verb for blooming. Because the subject de mooie planten is plural here, we use the full plural verb form bloeien.