Breakdown of De wetenschapper zal het klimaat hebben onderzocht.
hebben
to have
zullen
shall / will
onderzoeken
to investigate
de wetenschapper
the scientist
het klimaat
the climate
Questions & Answers about De wetenschapper zal het klimaat hebben onderzocht.
How is the future perfect tense formed in this sentence?
We use zal (will) in the second position of the sentence, and push the perfect tense parts to the very end: the auxiliary hebben (have) and the past participle onderzocht (researched). This works very similarly to English to show that an action will be fully completed at some point in the future.
Can I change the order of the verbs at the end to onderzocht hebben?
Yes! When you have a past participle like onderzocht and an auxiliary verb like hebben together at the end of a clause, their order is flexible. Both hebben onderzocht and onderzocht hebben are completely correct and sound perfectly natural.
Why doesn't the past participle onderzocht have a ge- added to it?
The infinitive verb is onderzoeken. Verbs that start with inseparable prefixes like onder-, be-, ver-, or ont- do not get a ge- added when forming the past participle.
What would happen to the sentence if the subject was plural (the scientists)?
If the subject was plural (de wetenschappers), the finite verb zal would change to its plural form zullen. The rest of the sentence, including the verbs at the end, would stay exactly the same: De wetenschappers zullen het klimaat hebben onderzocht.
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