Word
Is de productiviteit van dit team gedaald?
Meaning
Has the productivity of this team decreased?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Is de productiviteit van dit team gedaald?
zijn
to be
dit
this (neuter)
het team
the team
van
from (possession, starting point) / made of
Questions & Answers about Is de productiviteit van dit team gedaald?
Why does productief become productiviteit instead of productiefheid?
Adjectives of Latin or French origin, which often end in -ief, -eel, or -air in Dutch, take the suffix -iteit to form a noun. Native Dutch adjectives usually take -heid. Also notice how the f in productief changes to a v before the vowel in -iteit.
Are words ending in -iteit always de words?
Yes, they are. All abstract nouns created with the suffixes -iteit and -heid are feminine, meaning they always take the definite article de.
Why does the sentence use is rather than heeft for the present perfect tense?
The verb dalen (to decrease) describes a change of state. In Dutch, verbs that express a clear change of state form their perfect tense with zijn (here as is) instead of hebben.
Why is it dit team and not deze team?