Word
Daarna werd het fietspad vervangen.
Meaning
After that, the bicycle path was replaced.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Daarna werd het fietspad vervangen.
daarna
after that
worden
to become
het fietspad
the bicycle path
vervangen
to replace
Questions & Answers about Daarna werd het fietspad vervangen.
The lesson is about the present perfect passive using zijn. Why does this sentence use werd?
Werd is the simple past tense of worden. This sentence is actually in the simple past passive. If it used the present perfect passive from this lesson, it would be Daarna is het fietspad vervangen. Dutch speakers often use the simple past passive with werd to emphasize the action happening at a specific moment in the past, especially after time words like Daarna.
Why is the word order werd het fietspad instead of het fietspad werd?
Because the sentence starts with Daarna (After that). In Dutch, whenever you put something other than the subject at the beginning of the sentence, the subject and the verb swap places. This is a grammar rule called inversion.
Is vervangen the infinitive or the past participle here?
It is the past participle. For a few verbs in Dutch, the infinitive and the past participle are exactly the same word. You can tell it functions as a past participle here because it is paired with the helping verb werd to create the passive voice.
I see that fietspad is a combination of two words. How do I know whether to use de or het for compound words?