Word
De boeren bakken eieren en kijken naar de runderen.
Meaning
The farmers fry eggs and look at the cattle.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of De boeren bakken eieren en kijken naar de runderen.
en
and
naar
to
kijken
to watch
het ei
the egg
Questions & Answers about De boeren bakken eieren en kijken naar de runderen.
Why is the plural of ei (egg) eieren and not just "eien"?
Dutch has a small, special group of neuter nouns that add -eren to become plural instead of the usual -en or -s. Het ei is one of the most common examples.
What is the singular form of runderen?
The singular is het rund (which means a cow or a bovine). Just like ei, it gets the special -eren ending in the plural.
Is boeren (farmers) also one of these irregular -eren plurals?
Actually, no! The singular word is de boer (the farmer). To make it plural, you just add the standard -en ending. It looks like an irregular plural, but that is just because the singular word already ends in an r.
Doesn't bakken mean "to bake"? Why is it used for cooking eggs here?
In Dutch, the verb bakken covers both "to bake" (in an oven) and "to fry" (in a pan). So when you fry an egg, you use bakken.
Can I leave out naar and just say kijken de runderen?