Word
Het is moeilijk om hem na één sollicitatiegesprek te beoordelen.
Meaning
It is difficult to evaluate him after one job interview.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Het is moeilijk om hem na één sollicitatiegesprek te beoordelen.
zijn
to be
één
one
het
it
moeilijk
difficult
Questions & Answers about Het is moeilijk om hem na één sollicitatiegesprek te beoordelen.
How does the om ... te structure work in this sentence?
When you say something is difficult to do, Dutch uses om plus te with the infinitive verb. The word om starts the extra phrase, the object (hem) and other details (na één sollicitatiegesprek) go in the middle, and te beoordelen is pushed to the very end.
Why are there accent marks on één?
The accents tell you to pronounce it as the number one rather than the unaccented een, which just means a or an. It emphasizes that evaluating someone after a single interview is difficult.
How could we rewrite this sentence to use lijken (to seem), which we are learning in this lesson?
You can simply replace is with lijkt to say Het lijkt moeilijk om hem na één sollicitatiegesprek te beoordelen (It seems difficult to...). This changes the sentence from a hard fact to a personal impression.
What is the difference between oordelen and beoordelen?
The prefix be- often makes a verb transitive, meaning it must have a direct object. While oordelen means to judge or form an opinion in general, beoordelen means to evaluate or assess a specific person or thing (like the job candidate here).