Breakdown of We zullen het mooie museum zeker bezoeken.
mooi
beautiful
bezoeken
to visit
het museum
the museum
zullen
shall / will
we
we (unstressed form of wij)
zeker
certainly
Questions & Answers about We zullen het mooie museum zeker bezoeken.
Why is the verb bezoeken at the very end of the sentence?
This happens because of the future tense helper verb zullen (will). In Dutch, when you use a helper verb, it takes the second position in the sentence, and the main action verb (bezoeken) gets pushed to the very end in its full dictionary form (the infinitive).
Why do we use zullen here instead of zal?
Because the subject is we (we). For singular subjects like ik (I) or hij (he), you use zal. For plural subjects like we, jullie (you all), and zij (they), you must use the plural form zullen.
Why is there an -e added to mooi to make mooie?
When an adjective comes directly before a noun, it almost always gets an -e at the end. Because museum is a het-word and we are using the definite article het (the), this standard rule applies and mooi becomes mooie. You would only drop the -e if you used the indefinite article een (a), like in een mooi museum.
Why does the adverb zeker (certainly) come after het mooie museum instead of before it?
In Dutch, adverbs like zeker usually come after a specific, defined object. Because het mooie museum is a specific object (indicated by the word het), it jumps ahead of the adverb. If we were just talking about visiting an unspecified museum in general, the adverb would come first: We zullen zeker een museum bezoeken.
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