Word
Wij gooien nutteloze en overbodige kleren weg.
Meaning
We throw away useless and superfluous clothes.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Wij gooien nutteloze en overbodige kleren weg.
en
and
wij
we
weggooien
to throw away
de kleren
the clothes
Questions & Answers about Wij gooien nutteloze en overbodige kleren weg.
How would I use the grammar from this lesson to say we throw away neither useless nor superfluous clothes?
You would use noch ... noch. The sentence becomes: Wij gooien noch nutteloze, noch overbodige kleren weg. Notice that you don't need to add niet or geen because noch is already negative.
Why is weg at the very end of the sentence?
This is because weggooien (to throw away) is a separable verb. In a main clause, the conjugated part (gooien) takes the second position, and the prefix (weg) gets kicked to the very end.
Why do both nutteloos and overbodig get an -e ending here?
Adjectives usually get an -e ending when they come before a plural noun like kleren. Also, notice the spelling change in nutteloze: it loses an extra 'o' and the 's' changes to a 'z' to keep the pronunciation correct.
Does the suffix -loos in nutteloos mean the same as '-less' in English?
Yes! The noun het nut means 'use' or 'purpose', so adding -loos makes it nutteloos (useless). It works almost exactly like the English suffix.