Word
Het gerecht in dit restaurant is echt walgelijk.
Meaning
The dish in this restaurant is really disgusting.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Het gerecht in dit restaurant is echt walgelijk.
zijn
to be
in
in
het restaurant
the restaurant
dit
this (neuter)
Questions & Answers about Het gerecht in dit restaurant is echt walgelijk.
Doesn't gerecht also mean 'court' or 'justice'?
Yes, it does! Het gerecht is a homonym. Depending on the context, it means either a prepared meal or the legal court. Here, being in a restaurant, it clearly refers to the food.
Why do we use dit instead of deze for 'this restaurant'?
Because restaurant is a neuter noun (het restaurant). For het words, you must point to them using dit (this) or dat (that). You only use deze or die for de words.
How should I pronounce the ending of walgelijk?
The suffix -lijk is always pronounced like 'luk'. You don't pronounce the 'ij' vowel sound at all. The whole word sounds roughly like 'wahl-guh-luk'.
If I change this to 'This is the most disgusting dish that they have', do I use wat because of the superlative?
No, you would use dat: Dit is het walgelijkste gerecht dat ze hebben. You only use wat after a superlative if the noun is left out to mean 'the most disgusting thing' (for example: het walgelijkste wat ik heb gegeten). Because the noun gerecht is still there, you use the standard relative pronoun for a het word, which is dat.