Breakdown of Welk alternatief zouden jullie hebben overwogen?
jullie
you (plural)
hebben
to have
welk
which (for het-words)
zullen
shall / will
Questions & Answers about Welk alternatief zouden jullie hebben overwogen?
How do you form the past conditional in this sentence?
To talk about something that might have happened in the past but didn't, Dutch uses the past tense of zullen (here, zouden to match the plural jullie) plus the perfect tense of the main verb (hebben overwogen). This translates directly to the English structure "would have considered".
Could I change the word order at the end and say overwogen hebben?
Yes! When you have an auxiliary verb (hebben) and a past participle (overwogen) at the end of a sentence, Dutch allows both orders. Saying zouden jullie overwogen hebben is perfectly correct, though putting hebben first is very common in everyday speech.
Why is it Welk alternatief instead of Welke alternatief?
The noun alternatief is a het-word (het alternatief). When asking "which" before a singular het-word, you must use the uninflected form welk. If it were a de-word or a plural noun, you would use welke.
Why doesn't the past participle overwogen have a ge- prefix?