Breakdown of Ik wil de prijzen van deze hotels vergelijken.
ik
I
het hotel
the hotel
willen
to want
deze
this / these
van
from (possession, starting point) / made of
vergelijken
to compare
de prijs
the price
Questions & Answers about Ik wil de prijzen van deze hotels vergelijken.
Since this lesson is about comparative adjectives, where is the comparative adjective in this sentence?
There actually isn't one here! Instead, this sentence introduces the verb vergelijken, which means "to compare." You will use this verb often to set up the comparisons you are learning to make with adjectives.
Why is vergelijken placed at the very end of the sentence?
Because of the verb wil (want). In Dutch, when you use a modal verb like willen (to want), kunnen (can), or moeten (must), it takes the second position in the sentence. The main action verb (in this case, vergelijken) then gets pushed all the way to the end.
The word for hotel is het hotel. Why do we say deze hotels instead of dit hotels?
While singular het words use dit (this) and dat (that), all plural words act like de words. Because hotels is plural, we must use deze (these) or die (those), regardless of whether the singular form was a de or het word.
Why does the 's' in prijs (price) change to a 'z' in prijzen?
When a Dutch word ends in -s (like prijs or huis), that letter often changes to a -z- when we make it plural by adding -en. This happens because it is naturally easier to pronounce between two vowels. A similar rule applies to words ending in -f, which change to -v- (like brief to brieven).
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