Breakdown of Wat voor informatie moet je opschrijven om plagiaat te vermijden?
jij
you
moeten
to have to, must
de informatie
the information
opschrijven
to write down
te
to (infinitive marker)
om
in order to
vermijden
to avoid
wat voor
what kind of (in 'wat voor')
het plagiaat
the plagiarism
Questions & Answers about Wat voor informatie moet je opschrijven om plagiaat te vermijden?
How would we rewrite this sentence using the current lesson's structure, geacht worden te?
You would replace the active modal moet je opschrijven (must you write down) with the passive expectation structure word je geacht op te schrijven (are you expected to write down). The full sentence becomes: Wat voor informatie word je geacht op te schrijven om plagiaat te vermijden?
In that rewritten sentence (op te schrijven), why does te go in the middle of the verb?
Opschrijven is a separable verb (op + schrijven). Whenever a separable verb is used in a te + infinitive construction, the word te is placed between the prefix and the core verb, and it is all written as a single word: op te schrijven.
How does wat voor work here, and could I just use welke instead?
Wat voor translates to "what kind of" or "what sort of". It asks about the characteristics or category of the information. If you used welke (Welke informatie...), it would mean "Which information...", which implies picking from a specific, already known set of options rather than asking about the general type.
Why do we use the structure om ... te in the second half of the sentence?
The combination om ... te plus an infinitive translates to "in order to". Here, om plagiaat te vermijden means "in order to avoid plagiarism". You use this structure whenever you want to express the specific purpose or goal of an action.
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