Breakdown of Het proces stopt omdat het materiaal wordt vervoerd.
stoppen
to stop
worden
to become
omdat
because (subordinating)
het materiaal
the material
Questions & Answers about Het proces stopt omdat het materiaal wordt vervoerd.
Why is "is being transported" translated with wordt instead of a form of zijn (to be)?
Why are the verbs wordt and vervoerd pushed all the way to the end of the sentence?
The word omdat (because) introduces a subordinate clause. In Dutch, a subordinate clause always pushes all of its verbs to the very end.
Does wordt have to come before vervoerd at the end of the clause?
No, both orders are correct! When a subordinate clause has two verbs at the end, you can put the conjugated verb first (wordt vervoerd) or the past participle first (vervoerd wordt).
I learned that past participles usually start with ge-. Why doesn't vervoerd have it?
The original verb is vervoeren. When a verb already starts with a fixed prefix like ver-, be-, or ont-, it does not get an extra ge- in the past participle.