Word
De man gooit het karton in de container.
Meaning
The man throws the cardboard in the container.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of De man gooit het karton in de container.
de man
the man
in
in
gooien
to roll / to throw
het karton
the cardboard
Questions & Answers about De man gooit het karton in de container.
How would I add immers to this sentence to express 'The man throws the cardboard in the container, after all'?
You can place it in the middle field right after the verb: De man gooit immers het karton in de container. You can also place it after the definite object (het karton immers). Both positions are correct and use shared knowledge to justify a previous statement or action.
Why use in de container instead of naar de container?
When you use gooien (to throw) to mean putting something inside a bin or receptacle, you use in. If you said naar de container, it would mean he is standing far away and throwing the cardboard at or towards the container!
How do I know whether to use de or het with karton?
Karton is a neuter noun, so it takes het. A helpful rule of thumb for B1 learners is that raw materials in Dutch, such as hout (wood), glas (glass), and zilver (silver), are very often het words.
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