Word
Ik regelde gisteren alles voor het nieuwe huis.
Meaning
I arranged everything for the new house yesterday.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Ik regelde gisteren alles voor het nieuwe huis.
ik
I
het huis
the house
nieuw
new
voor
for (on behalf of)
Questions & Answers about Ik regelde gisteren alles voor het nieuwe huis.
Why does this sentence use regelde instead of regelte?
The verb is regelen (to arrange). To find the past tense, we take the infinitive minus -en, leaving the stem regel. The last letter is 'l'. Because 'l' is a voiced consonant (it is not in the memory word 't kofschip), we add -de for the singular past tense.
Why does gisteren come before alles?
In Dutch, expressions of time like gisteren (yesterday) usually come very early in the sentence. They typically sit directly after the verb and before the direct object, which in this case is alles (everything).
Why is there an 'e' at the end of nieuwe?
Huis is a het word (het huis). When a het word has the specific article het in front of it, the adjective gets an extra -e. If the sentence said 'a new house', it would be een nieuw huis without the 'e', because the article is een.
Can I use regelen for sorting out problems too?
Yes! Regelen is a very useful everyday verb. While it means 'to arrange', it is heavily used to mean 'to organize', 'to sort out', or 'to take care of' something. For example, Ik regel het wel means 'I will take care of it'.