Learn Dutch: Wordt het korte gedicht door de dichter vertaald? - Is the short poem translated by the poet?

In Dutch passive sentences, the person or thing doing the action is introduced by the preposition door. While English uses "by" for many things (like location or time), Dutch specifically uses door when saying an action is done by someone. Here, the translating is done door de dichter (by the poet).

Why is the verb vertaald at the very end of the sentence?

This sentence is a yes/no question in the passive voice. The helping verb worden (here as wordt) goes at the beginning to form the question, which pushes the main action verb (the past participle vertaald) to the very end of the sentence.

Gedicht is a het-word. Why does kort get an extra -e to become korte?

You only drop the -e from an adjective before a singular het-word if it is indefinite (meaning it comes after een, geen, or no article at all). Because we are using the definite article het (the) in het korte gedicht, the adjective gets the standard -e ending.

Are the words gedicht and dichter related?