Questions & Answers about Ik woon in het huis dat een rood dak heeft.
Why do we use dat instead of die for "that" in this sentence?
The word dat points back to het huis. Because huis is a het-word, we must use the relative pronoun dat. If it referred to a de-word or a plural word, we would use die.
Why is the verb heeft at the very end of the sentence?
The phrase dat een rood dak heeft is a relative clause, which is a type of subclause that describes the house. In Dutch, whenever you have a subclause, the verb is pushed all the way to the end.
Why doesn't the adjective rood have an -e at the end here?
Normally, adjectives get an -e ending, but there is an important exception you learned earlier. Because dak is a het-word (het dak) and it comes after the unspecific article een (a), the adjective drops the -e. If we were saying "the red roof", it would be het rode dak.
If the house had a red door (de deur) instead of a roof, would the word dat change?