Breakdown of Het team zal morgen waarschijnlijk in de stad verliezen.
in
in
de stad
the city
morgen
tomorrow
zullen
shall / will
het team
the team
waarschijnlijk
probably
verliezen
to lose
Questions & Answers about Het team zal morgen waarschijnlijk in de stad verliezen.
Why is verliezen at the very end of the sentence?
This is the standard rule for the future tense in Dutch! The helping verb zal (will) takes the second position in the sentence, while the main action verb verliezen (lose) is pushed all the way to the end in its full dictionary form (the infinitive).
Why do we use zal instead of zullen?
Even though a team has many members, het team is grammatically a single thing (it). Because it is a singular subject, we use the singular form zal. If the subject were plural, like de spelers (the players), you would use zullen.
Why are the words ordered as morgen waarschijnlijk in de stad?
This follows a very common Dutch word order rule called Time-Manner-Place (TMP). You usually say when something happens (morgen), then how it happens (waarschijnlijk), and finally where it happens (in de stad).
The word waarschijnlijk is hard to remember. How is it built?
It helps to break it into pieces! Waar means 'true' and schijn means 'appearance'. The ending -lijk turns it into an adverb (like '-ly' in English). So it literally means 'true-appearing-ly', which translates to 'probably'.
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