Breakdown of Hij zal het papier daar weggooien.
hij
he / it (referring to a 'de'-word)
daar
there
zullen
shall / will
weggooien
to throw away
het papier
the paper
Questions & Answers about Hij zal het papier daar weggooien.
If this were a public instruction on a sign saying 'Throw the paper away there!', how would it be written?
You would drop the subject and the auxiliary verb, and just use the bare infinitive. The sign would simply read: Het papier daar weggooien! This is the standard way to give impersonal commands on signs or packaging in Dutch.
Why is weggooien written as one word here? I thought it was a separable verb.
It is a separable verb (weg + gooien). However, the modal verb zal (will) pushes the main verb to the very end of the sentence in its full infinitive form. When a separable verb is in its full infinitive, the prefix and the verb stay glued together. If it were a simple present tense sentence without a modal verb, it would split: Hij gooit het papier daar weg.
Why use zal instead of gaat to mean 'will' in this sentence?
While both can be used to talk about the future, zullen (here conjugated as zal) is often used to express an expectation, a promise, or an assumption. Using gaan (Hij gaat het papier daar weggooien) would sound more like a concrete, intended plan (He is going to throw...).
Can I put daar at the very end of the sentence, like in English?
No, because the word order rules in Dutch require the infinitive verb (weggooien) to be at the very end of this clause. Adverbs of place like daar must come before that final verb.
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