Breakdown of Deze informatie is heel gevoelig en privé.
zijn
to be
en
and
heel
very
deze
this / these
de informatie
the information
gevoelig
sensitive
privé
private
Questions & Answers about Deze informatie is heel gevoelig en privé.
If I wanted to change this sentence to say "This is someone's sensitive information", how would I use iemands?
You would use the possessive pronoun iemands (someone's) and say: Dit is iemands gevoelige informatie. Notice two other things change: we use dit is to introduce a new subject rather than deze, and gevoelig gets an -e at the end because it is now placed directly in front of the noun.
Why do we use deze instead of dit here?
Because informatie is a de-word. You use deze (this) and die (that) to point to de-words. You only use dit and dat for het-words.
Why don't the adjectives gevoelig and privé get an -e at the end?
Adjectives only get an added -e when they are placed directly before the noun they describe (like in de gevoelige informatie). When they come after the noun and a verb like is, they stay in their base, uninflected form.
I recognize part of the word gevoelig. Is it related to the word for "feeling"?
Exactly! The noun het gevoel means "the feeling". By adding the common adjective suffix -ig (which is similar to adding "-y" or "-ive" in English), you create the word gevoelig, which means "sensitive".
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