Breakdown of Ik krijg het rijbewijs thuisgestuurd.
ik
I
krijgen
to get (receive)
thuissturen
to send home
het rijbewijs
the driver's license
Questions & Answers about Ik krijg het rijbewijs thuisgestuurd.
Why use krijg here instead of word to make a passive sentence?
This is the benefactive passive. You use krijgen plus a past participle when the subject (Ik) is the person receiving the benefit of the action, rather than the thing being acted upon. If you used the standard passive with worden, the license would have to be the subject: Het rijbewijs wordt thuisgestuurd.
Why is the word ge tucked into the middle of thuisgestuurd?
The infinitive is thuissturen, which is a separable verb made of thuis (home) and sturen (to send). When forming the past participle of a separable verb, the ge- prefix is always placed exactly between the separable prefix and the main verb stem.
Why does the past participle thuisgestuurd go all the way at the end?
Just like in a standard perfect tense sentence with hebben or zijn, the conjugated verb (krijg) takes the second position in the main clause, and the past participle (thuisgestuurd) is pushed to the very end of the sentence.
Why does the Dutch sentence say het rijbewijs rather than mijn rijbewijs?
In Dutch, it is very common to use a definite article (het or de) instead of a possessive pronoun (mijn) for personal items or body parts when the owner is obvious from the context. Since you are the one receiving the document, it is already clear that it is your driver's license.
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