Questions & Answers about Op maandag hoorde ik een raar geluid in de keuken.
Why is the verb first in hoorde ik instead of ik hoorde?
Because the sentence starts with the time phrase Op maandag. In Dutch, when you put anything other than the subject at the beginning of a sentence, the verb and subject swap places. This is called inversion.
Is hoorde an irregular strong verb like the others in this lesson?
No, it is actually a regular (weak) verb, which is a good reminder that not every past tense verb is irregular! It comes from horen (to hear). Because the stem hoor ends in the letter 'r' (which is not in the 't kofschip rule), you just add -de to make it past tense.
Why is it een raar geluid without an extra -e on raar?
Geluid is a het word (het geluid). When a het word is used with een (a/an), the adjective describing it does not get the extra -e at the end.
Do you always use op with days of the week?
Yes! Just like in English where you say 'on Monday', in Dutch you use the preposition op to say op maandag. Notice that days of the week in Dutch are written with a lowercase letter unless they start a sentence.