Breakdown of Het gerecht in dit restaurant is echt walgelijk.
zijn
to be
in
in
het restaurant
the restaurant
dit
this (neuter)
echt
real; really (genuinely)
het gerecht
the dish (food)
walgelijk
disgusting
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.
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