Breakdown of Wie heeft gisteren het vuilnis buitengezet?
hebben
to have
wie
who
gisteren
yesterday
het vuilnis
the garbage
Questions & Answers about Wie heeft gisteren het vuilnis buitengezet?
How do you form the past participle buitengezet?
The base verb is buitenzetten (to put outside). Because it is a separable verb, the prefix buiten and the verb zetten can split apart. When forming the past participle, the ge- goes right between the prefix and the verb: buiten + ge + zet = buitengezet. It is written together as one single word.
Since we are learning about subordinate clauses, what happens to the verbs if we make this sentence a subordinate clause?
If you turn this into a subordinate clause, such as 'I know who took the garbage out' (Ik weet wie...), all verbs must go to the very end of the sentence. The helper verb (heeft) and the past participle (buitengezet) will sit right next to each other. You can say either ...wie gisteren het vuilnis heeft buitengezet or ...wie gisteren het vuilnis buitengezet heeft. Both orders are perfectly fine!
Why does the word gisteren come before het vuilnis?
In Dutch, words that tell you when something happened (like gisteren, yesterday) almost always come before the direct object (het vuilnis, the garbage). A good rule of thumb to remember is 'Time before Object'.
Does buitengezet literally translate to 'took out'?