Word
De garage zou de schade al hebben hersteld.
Meaning
The garage would have repaired the damage already.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of De garage zou de schade al hebben hersteld.
hebben
to have
zullen
shall / will
al
already
de garage
the garage
Questions & Answers about De garage zou de schade al hebben hersteld.
How do we form the past conditional 'would have repaired' in this sentence?
We use zou, the past tense of zullen (will), in the second position of the sentence. Then we place the perfect infinitive, which consists of the helping verb hebben (have) and the past participle hersteld (repaired), at the very end of the sentence.
Can I say hersteld hebben instead of hebben hersteld at the end of the sentence?
Yes, absolutely! When a past participle like hersteld and an auxiliary infinitive like hebben sit together at the end of a sentence, Dutch allows you to use either order. Both are perfectly correct and natural.
Why is al placed where it is?
Time words like al (already) generally go after a specific direct object, which is de schade (the damage) here. However, they must come before the cluster of verbs at the end of the clause (hebben hersteld).
If the subject was plural (de garages), which verbs in this sentence would change?
Only the conjugated verb in the second position changes to match the subject, so zou would become zouden. The verbs at the end (hebben hersteld) stay exactly the same.