Breakdown of Het decennium dat volgt, zal de wereld hebben veranderd.
hebben
to have
zullen
shall / will
volgen
to follow
veranderen
to change
de wereld
the world
dat
that/which (relative pronoun)
het decennium
the decade
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?
This is standard Dutch word order! The entire phrase Het decennium dat volgt acts as the subject of the sentence, taking up the entire first position. The verb zal simply sits in its normal second position. The comma is just an optional punctuation mark to make this long subject easier to read.
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