Word
Welke hond ga je uitlaten?
Meaning
Which dog are you going to walk?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Welke hond ga je uitlaten?
de hond
the dog
gaan
to go / to go off (of an alarm)
welke
which (for de-words and plural)
je
you (unstressed form of jij)
Questions & Answers about Welke hond ga je uitlaten?
Why do we use Welke here instead of Wat voor?
We use Welke (Which) because we are asking about a specific dog from a known group or choice. If we wanted to ask 'What kind of dog are you going to walk?' (like asking about the breed), we would use Wat voor een hond.
Why is it ga je and not je gaat?
In Dutch questions, the subject and the verb swap places. Since the question phrase Welke hond takes the first position, the verb ga comes next, followed by the subject je.
Why is uitlaten all the way at the end of the sentence?
When you use a helper verb like gaan (to go), the main action verb moves to the very end of the sentence and stays in its full dictionary form. Here, ga is the helper verb, sending uitlaten to the end.
What does uitlaten literally mean?
It is a separable verb made of uit (out) and laten (to let). So it literally translates to 'to let out', which is the standard Dutch way to say you are taking a pet for a walk.