Breakdown of Deze map is gevaarlijk; je mag jouw wachtwoord daarin niet opslaan!
zijn
to be
niet
not
daar
there
in
in
mogen
to be allowed to / may
jouw
your
deze
this / these
gevaarlijk
dangerous
je
you (unstressed form of jij)
de map
the folder
opslaan
to save (data, files)
het wachtwoord
the password
Questions & Answers about Deze map is gevaarlijk; je mag jouw wachtwoord daarin niet opslaan!
Why do we use daarin instead of saying in dat or in die for "in that"?
In Dutch, you generally cannot put a preposition (like in) directly before "it" or "that" to talk about things. Instead, you change "that" to daar (there) and attach the preposition to the end. So, "in that" becomes daarin (literally "there-in").
Why is opslaan at the very end of the sentence?
This is because of the modal verb mag (may/are allowed to). When you use a modal verb, it takes the normal verb position, and the main action verb (opslaan, meaning "to save") gets pushed to the very end of the sentence in its full infinitive form.
Is opslaan a separable verb? Why isn't it split up here?
Yes, opslaan is a separable verb made of op + slaan. However, it doesn't split here because it is sitting at the end of the sentence as a full infinitive. Separable verbs only split when they are the conjugated verb in the main part of the sentence, for example: Ik sla het op (I save it).
Why is it Deze map and not Dit map?
The word for folder is a de-word (de map). When pointing out a de-word with "this", you must use deze. If it were a het-word, you would use dit, such as dit wachtwoord (this password).
The sentence uses both je and jouw. Could I just say je wachtwoord instead?
Yes, you can! Je can mean both "you" and "your" when it is unstressed. By using jouw, the speaker is just adding a little bit of emphasis to the fact that it is your password.
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