De gladde straat was gevaarlijk tijdens de storm.
The slippery street was dangerous during the storm.
Breakdown of De gladde straat was gevaarlijk tijdens de storm.
zijn
to be
de straat
the street
gevaarlijk
dangerous
tijdens
during
de storm
the storm
glad
slippery
Questions & Answers about De gladde straat was gevaarlijk tijdens de storm.
Why is it gladde with a double 'd' instead of just "glade"?
The base adjective is glad (slippery). Because it comes directly before the noun, it gets an -e ending. To keep the vowel sounding short just like it does in glad, we must double the d. If we wrote glade, the rules of Dutch spelling would make the "a" sound long!
Why does gladde get an -e at the end, but gevaarlijk does not?
Adjectives get an -e ending when they are placed directly in front of the noun they describe, like in de gladde straat. However, when an adjective comes later in the sentence to describe the subject (after a verb like was), it never gets an -e ending.
How do I pronounce the -lijk part of gevaarlijk?
The suffix -lijk is pronounced like "luk". The ij in this specific ending sounds like a short, unstressed "u" (a schwa sound), not like the regular Dutch ij vowel.
Is tijdens related to the word tijd (time)?
Yes! Tijdens (during) comes directly from the word tijd. Adding an -s to nouns to create adverbs or prepositions related to time is very common in Dutch, similar to how 's nachts means "at night".
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