Word
Het panel dat op het podium zit, bespreekt de media.
Meaning
The panel that sits on the stage discusses the media.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Het panel dat op het podium zit, bespreekt de media.
zitten
to sit
op
on
bespreken
to discuss
dat
that/which (relative pronoun)
Questions & Answers about Het panel dat op het podium zit, bespreekt de media.
Is media singular or plural here?
Media is the plural form of the Latin loanword medium. In Dutch, classical loanwords ending in -um often take an -a ending in the plural. Because it is plural, it takes the definite article de.
The word podium ends in -um too. What is its plural form?
You actually have two options! You can use the classical Latin plural to make it podia, or you can use a standard Dutch ending to make it podiums. Both are perfectly correct and very common.
Why use dat instead of die to say "that"?
Dat is a relative pronoun connecting the extra information back to het panel. Because panel is a het-word, you have to use dat. If you were describing a de-word (like de groep), you would use die.
Could I say dat op het podium is instead of zit?