Questions & Answers about Hij werkt zelfs in het weekend.
Why do we use 'in' for 'on the weekend'?
In English, we say 'on the weekend' or 'at the weekend', but Dutch uses the preposition in. You will always use in het weekend to mean during those two days.
Why is 'zelfs' placed directly after the verb?
In a standard Dutch main clause, the conjugated verb is always the second idea. Here, Hij is the subject in the first position, and the verb werkt takes the second. Adverbs like zelfs (meaning 'even') naturally come right after the verb in this simple structure.
If I start the sentence with 'In het weekend', what happens to the word order?
Because the verb must stay in the second position, the subject and verb will swap places (this is called inversion). The sentence would become: In het weekend werkt hij zelfs.
Is 'weekend' a 'de' or 'het' word?
It is a het word, as you can clearly see from the phrase in het weekend in this sentence. Many English loanwords in Dutch take de, but weekend is a common exception that takes het.
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