Word
Het decennium dat volgt, zal de wereld hebben veranderd.
Meaning
The decade that follows will have changed the world.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Het decennium dat volgt, zal de wereld hebben veranderd.
hebben
to have
zullen
shall / will
volgen
to follow
veranderen
to change
Questions & Answers about Het decennium dat volgt, zal de wereld hebben veranderd.
How do we form the future perfect tense in zal de wereld hebben veranderd?
To say that something 'will have' happened, Dutch uses the future perfect tense. You form this by taking the conjugated form of zullen (here zal) in the second position, and placing the past participle (veranderd) along with hebben or zijn at the end of the sentence.
Can I say zal de wereld veranderd hebben instead of hebben veranderd?
Yes! When you have an infinitive (hebben) and a past participle (veranderd) stacked at the end of a sentence, you can put them in either order. Both hebben veranderd and veranderd hebben are completely correct and natural in Dutch.
Why do we use dat in dat volgt instead of die?
The word dat is a relative pronoun meaning 'that' or 'which', and it refers back to het decennium (the decade). Because decennium is a het-word, we have to use dat. If it were a de-word, we would use die.
Why is the verb zal placed right after the comma?