Het medicijn dat wij gebruiken, zal hem hebben genezen.
The medicine that we use will have cured him.
Breakdown of Het medicijn dat wij gebruiken, zal hem hebben genezen.
wij
we
hebben
to have
zullen
shall / will
gebruiken
to use
hem
him
dat
that/which (relative pronoun)
genezen
to cure
het medicijn
the medicine
Questions & Answers about Het medicijn dat wij gebruiken, zal hem hebben genezen.
How is the future perfect tense formed in this sentence?
The future perfect tense describes what "will have" happened. Here, it is formed using the conjugated verb zal (will) in the second position, sending the auxiliary infinitive hebben (have) and the past participle genezen (cured) to the end of the sentence.
Why does the second part of the sentence start with the verb zal?
The entire first part of the sentence (Het medicijn dat wij gebruiken) acts as the subject. In Dutch main clauses, the conjugated verb must take the second position (the V2 rule). Since the long subject takes up position one, zal must come immediately after it.
Why doesn't the past participle genezen have an extra "ge-" added to it?
The verb genezen (to cure/heal) already starts with the prefix ge-. Verbs that start with unstressed prefixes like ge-, be-, ver-, or ont- do not get an extra ge- in their past participle form. For this strong verb, the infinitive and the past participle are completely identical!
Why do we use dat instead of die to say "that we use"?
The relative pronoun dat is used because it refers back to Het medicijn, which is a neuter (het) word. If you were referring to a de word, like de behandeling (the treatment), you would use die: de behandeling die wij gebruiken.
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