Word
De producten worden verpakt en daarna vervoerd.
Meaning
The products are packed and then transported.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of De producten worden verpakt en daarna vervoerd.
en
and
daarna
after that
worden
to become
het product
the product
Questions & Answers about De producten worden verpakt en daarna vervoerd.
English uses the verb 'to be' here (are packed). Why does Dutch use worden instead of zijn?
In Dutch, the present passive voice uses worden (to become) plus a past participle. If you used zijn here (De producten zijn verpakt), it would change the meaning to a finished state ('The products have been packed'). Because this sentence describes the active process of them being packed, we use worden.
Why don't the past participles verpakt and vervoerd start with ge-?
Verbs that already start with an unstressed prefix like ver-, be-, her-, or ont- do not get an extra ge- added to their past participles. Since the infinitive verbs are verpakken and vervoeren, their past participles are simply verpakt and vervoerd.
Why does verpakt end in a -t but vervoerd ends in a -d?
This follows the 't kofschip rule you learned previously. The stem of verpakken ends in k, which is a consonant in 't kofschip, so it gets a -t. The stem of vervoeren ends in r, which is not in 't kofschip, so it takes a -d.