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In de zomer is de stad bloedheet.

In de zomer is de stad bloedheet.
In the summer, the city is boiling hot.
From Lesson 299:Intensifying compound adjectives·Dutch

Breakdown of In de zomer is de stad bloedheet.

zijn
to be
in
in
de stad
the city
de zomer
the summer
bloedheet
boiling hot

Questions & Answers about In de zomer is de stad bloedheet.

How does the elative compound bloedheet literally translate?
An elative compound combines a noun with an adjective to strongly intensify its meaning. Here, bloed (blood) is combined with heet (hot). So, while English says "boiling hot" or "baking hot", the Dutch literally say "blood hot" to describe extreme heat.
Can I use bloedheet for hot food or drinks, or is it only for the weather?
You can use it for both! While it describes the sweltering city here, you can just as easily say your soup or coffee is bloedheet. It works for pretty much anything that is uncomfortably or dangerously hot.
As a quick refresher, why is the word order inverted here (is de stad)?
Because the sentence starts with the time phrase In de zomer, the finite verb must take the second position in the sentence (the V2 rule). This forces the subject de stad to move after the verb, creating the inversion.
Why isn't the season zomer capitalized?
Unlike in English where seasons are occasionally capitalized, Dutch spelling rules are strict on this: seasons, months, and days of the week are always written in lowercase unless they are the very first word of a sentence.

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