Breakdown of Het hotel heeft duizend bedden.
hebben
to have
het bed
the bed
het hotel
the hotel
duizend
one thousand
Questions & Answers about Het hotel heeft duizend bedden.
Why is there no word for 'a' before duizend?
In English, we say 'a thousand' or 'one thousand'. In Dutch, you do not use een before honderd (a hundred) or duizend (a thousand). You just say duizend on its own.
Why does the plural bedden have two d's?
The singular word is bed, which has a short 'e' sound. To keep that vowel sound short when adding the plural ending -en, you have to double the consonant. If it were spelled with only one 'd' (beden), the 'e' would become a long vowel sound.
Why is it het hotel and not de hotel?
Hotel is a neuter noun, which means it takes the definite article het instead of de for 'the'. There isn't a strict rule for this, so it is best to memorize nouns along with their article: het hotel.
Why do we use heeft instead of hebben here?
Hebben is the full infinitive verb meaning 'to have'. Because the subject of the sentence is het hotel (which acts like an 'it'), we must use the he/she/it form of the verb, which is heeft.
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