Breakdown of Zie je de stromende rivier in dat landschap?
zien
to see
in
in
dat
that (het-words)
je
you (unstressed form of jij)
de rivier
the river
stromen
to flow
het landschap
the landscape
Questions & Answers about Zie je de stromende rivier in dat landschap?
How is the word stromende formed here?
It comes from the infinitive verb stromen (to flow). To make a present participle in Dutch, you simply add -d to the infinitive, giving you stromend (flowing). Because it is placed right before the noun rivier to describe it, it acts as an adjective and gets an extra -e at the end.
Does a present participle always get an -e at the end when used before a noun?
Usually, yes! It follows the exact same rules as normal adjectives. Because rivier is a de-word, any adjective in front of it gets an -e, whether you use de (the) or een (a). It would only drop the -e if it were describing a het-word with een or no article (for example, een stromend beekje - a flowing brook).
The noun for a stream or current is stroom. Why does stromende only have one o?
This is a great reminder of the Dutch spelling rules for open and closed syllables. In the infinitive stromen, the first syllable ends with the vowel (stro-men), making it an "open" syllable. Open syllables automatically have a long vowel sound, so it only needs one o. The present participle keeps this spelling: stro-men-de.
Why do we say dat landschap instead of die landschap?
Landschap is a het-word (het landschap). When pointing to a het-word that is far away (meaning "that"), you must use the demonstrative pronoun dat. If you were saying "this landscape" (nearby), you would use dit landschap.
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