Questions & Answers about De man plakt de foto met lijm.
If I want to ask what the man is sticking the photo with, how do I form that question?
This is where your current lesson comes in! To ask "with what", you use waarmee. You cannot say "met wat" when asking about things in Dutch. The question becomes: Waarmee plakt de man de foto? Notice that the preposition met changes its spelling to mee when it attaches to waar.
Does the verb plakt specifically mean "to glue"?
The verb plakken broadly means "to stick", "to paste", or "to tape". That is why the sentence adds met lijm (with glue) to be specific about how he is doing it. If he were using tape, the sentence would use met plakband.
Could I change the word order and say "De man plakt met lijm de foto"?
That sounds unnatural in Dutch. The direct object (de foto) usually needs to come before prepositional phrases that describe the tool or method used to do the action (met lijm).