Word
De oude fabriek veroorzaakt helaas veel vervuiling.
Meaning
The old factory unfortunately causes a lot of pollution.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of De oude fabriek veroorzaakt helaas veel vervuiling.
oud
old
veel
much / many / a lot of
de fabriek
the factory
helaas
unfortunately
Questions & Answers about De oude fabriek veroorzaakt helaas veel vervuiling.
Since this lesson is about immers, where would we put it in this sentence to say 'after all, the old factory unfortunately causes a lot of pollution'?
You would place it in the middle field, usually right after the conjugated verb alongside other adverbs. For example: De oude fabriek veroorzaakt immers helaas veel vervuiling. This adds the nuance of 'as we all know' or 'after all' to justify a previous statement with shared knowledge.
Why is it oude and not oud?
Because fabriek is a de-word (de fabriek). When an adjective comes before a noun with de or het in front of it, it almost always gets an -e at the end. Only het-words with an indefinite article (een) or no article drop the -e.
How does the word vervuiling (pollution) relate to the word for dirty (vuil)?
The prefix ver- is often used in Dutch to show a transition or a process of change. So vuil means dirty, vervuilen means to make dirty or to pollute, and adding the suffix -ing turns the verb into the noun vervuiling.
Why does helaas sit in the middle of the sentence instead of at the beginning?