Word
De volgende generatie zal het klimaat hebben gered.
Meaning
The next generation will have saved the climate.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of De volgende generatie zal het klimaat hebben gered.
hebben
to have
zullen
shall / will
volgend
next
redden
to save (rescue)
Questions & Answers about De volgende generatie zal het klimaat hebben gered.
How is the future perfect tense constructed in this sentence?
It is built using three verbs: zal (will), hebben (have), and the past participle gered (saved). Just like in English, you use the future auxiliary (zullen) in the second position of the sentence as the finite verb, and push the perfect infinitive (hebben gered) all the way to the end.
Are we allowed to change the order of the verbs at the end to gered hebben?
Yes! When you have a cluster of verbs at the end of a main clause, the order of the past participle (gered) and the auxiliary verb (hebben) is flexible. Both hebben gered and gered hebben are grammatically correct and widely used by native speakers.
Why doesn't the past participle gered end in a -t or have double ds?
The infinitive is redden (to save). If you remove the -en, the stem ends in d. Because the letter d is not in the consonant memory trick 't kofschip, we add a -d for the past participle. However, Dutch spelling rules do not allow words to end in double identical consonants, so ge-red-d simplifies to gered.
Why does the adjective volgend (next) get an -e ending to become volgende?