Learn Dutch: Je zou je collega's moeten steunen. - You should support your colleagues.

To express 'should' as advice or a moral obligation, Dutch uses the past tense of zullen (zou for singular subjects) combined with moeten and the main action verb. Literally, it translates to 'would must support'.

Why are both moeten and steunen at the very end of the sentence?

The conjugated verb (zou) takes the second position in the sentence, pushing all remaining verbs to the end. When you have two infinitives at the end of a main clause like this, the modal verb (moeten) usually comes right before the main action verb (steunen).

Why is je used twice near the beginning of the sentence?

They are two different words that happen to be spelled the same way here. The first je is the subject pronoun ('you'). The second je is the unstressed possessive pronoun ('your'). If you wanted to place special emphasis on 'your colleagues', you would use the stressed form jouw: Je zou jouw collega's moeten steunen.

Why is there an apostrophe in the plural word collega's?

When a Dutch noun ends in a single, open vowel (like a, o, u, i, or y), you must add an apostrophe-s to make it plural. This ensures the final vowel keeps its long pronunciation. If you just added an 's' (collegas), the rules of Dutch spelling would force the 'a' to be pronounced as a short, clipped sound.