Breakdown of We gaan het interview morgen uitzenden.
morgen
tomorrow
gaan
to go / to go off (of an alarm)
we
we (unstressed form of wij)
uitzenden
to broadcast
Questions & Answers about We gaan het interview morgen uitzenden.
Why is uitzenden at the very end of the sentence?
When you use a helping verb like gaan (are going to) to talk about the future, the main action verb (uitzenden) gets pushed to the very end of the sentence.
I learned that uitzenden is a separable verb. Why isn't it split into zenden ... uit here?
You only split a separable verb when it acts as the primary, conjugated verb in the sentence. Here, gaan is doing that grammatical work, so uitzenden stays whole in its full dictionary form (infinitive) at the end.
Could I use the present tense to express this future action instead of using gaan?
Yes! Dutch often uses the simple present tense combined with a time word (like morgen) to talk about the future. You could say: We zenden het interview morgen uit. Notice that without the helping verb gaan, the verb uitzenden now splits!
Since this lesson is about the passive voice, how would I say this if I didn't want to mention who is doing the broadcasting?
You would drop we and make het interview the subject using the passive voice: Het interview wordt morgen uitgezonden. Because this new sentence has a specific subject (het interview), you use the regular passive voice rather than the impersonal er wordt.