Word
Laten we de collectie uit de oudheid bezoeken.
Meaning
Let's visit the collection from antiquity.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Laten we de collectie uit de oudheid bezoeken.
bezoeken
to visit
uit
out of / from
we
we (unstressed form of wij)
laten
to let (laten we ... = let's ...)
Questions & Answers about Laten we de collectie uit de oudheid bezoeken.
The lesson is about irregular plurals. Does oudheid have one?
Yes! Words ending in the suffix -heid have an irregular plural: they change to -heden. So, oudheid becomes oudheden (antiquities). Notice how the vowel shifts from the ei sound to a long e sound.
Why is bezoeken placed at the very end of the sentence?
The phrase laten we (let's) acts like a modal verb structure here. Because laten is the conjugated verb near the beginning of the sentence, it pushes the main action verb (bezoeken) to the very end as a full infinitive.
Why does the sentence use uit instead of van for 'from antiquity'?
In Dutch, uit (literally 'out of') is used to indicate origin. Just as you use it for the physical place you come from, you also use uit for things that originate from a specific historical time period, like de oudheid.