Questions & Answers about Ik zou dat hotel niet aanraden.
Why is the verb aanraden at the very end of the sentence?
This is because of zou (would). zou is a helper verb here, and in Dutch, helper verbs push the main action verb (in this case, aanraden) to the end of the sentence in its full dictionary form (the infinitive).
I learned that aanraden is a separable verb. Why isn't it split up into raad ... aan here?
Separable verbs only split when they are the active, conjugated verb in a normal present or past tense sentence. Because zou is doing that work here, aanraden is pushed to the end as a full infinitive, meaning it stays glued together as one word.
Why do we use dat hotel instead of die hotel?
In Dutch, hotel is a het word (het hotel). When you want to say that with a het word, you must use dat. You only use die for de words or for plurals.
Why does niet come after the object dat hotel instead of before it?