Breakdown of Dit korte fragment wordt morgen online gepubliceerd.
morgen
tomorrow
dit
this (neuter)
kort
short
worden
to become
online
online
publiceren
to publish (make public)
het fragment
the fragment
Questions & Answers about Dit korte fragment wordt morgen online gepubliceerd.
How can I tell that fragment is a het word?
Look at the ending! Nouns ending in the suffix -ment (like fragment, moment, document, and abonnement) are almost always het words. Because it's a het word, we use the demonstrative pronoun dit (this) instead of deze.
If fragment is a het word, why does the adjective get an -e (korte)? Shouldn't it just be kort?
Adjectives in front of het words only drop the -e when they follow an indefinite word like een or geen, or if there is no article at all (for example: een kort fragment). Because this sentence uses the highly specific word dit, the adjective gets the standard -e ending.
The English translation says 'is being published'. Why does the Dutch sentence use wordt instead of is?
Dutch uses the verb worden (to become) for the passive voice when describing an action that is currently happening or about to happen. If you used is here (Dit fragment is gepubliceerd), it would mean the action is already finished ('This fragment has been published').
Publiceren is a foreign loan verb. Why does it get a ge- prefix in its past participle (gepubliceerd)?
Learners sometimes guess that loan words behave differently, especially if they know German, which skips the 'ge-' prefix for similar verbs. However, in Dutch, verbs ending in -eren (like publiceren, studeren, and proberen) follow standard rules and almost always get a ge- prefix to form the past participle.
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