Breakdown of Zij heeft het karton apart weggebracht.
zij
she
hebben
to have
apart
separately
het karton
the cardboard
Questions & Answers about Zij heeft het karton apart weggebracht.
How is the past participle weggebracht formed here?
It comes from the separable verb wegbrengen (to drop off / take away). Because it is a separable verb, the -ge- is injected between the prefix (weg) and the root of the verb (bracht).
Why isn't the root of the verb regular, like 'gebrengd'?
The base verb brengen (to bring) is irregular. Its standard past participle is gebracht. Separable verbs keep the irregularities of their base verbs, so wegbrengen becomes weggebracht.
What does weggebracht literally mean?
It literally means 'brought away'. In Dutch, wegbrengen is the standard way to say you are taking things like goods, recycling, or even people to another location.
Why are heeft and weggebracht separated by the rest of the sentence?
This is the standard Dutch word order for the present perfect tense. The helping verb (heeft) goes in the second position, and the past participle (weggebracht) gets pushed to the very end of the sentence, creating a 'verb sandwich'.