Word
Zij kan simpelweg niet goed omgaan met de tegenslag, dus ze weigert het te aanvaarden.
Meaning
She simply cannot deal well with the setback, so she refuses to accept it.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Zij kan simpelweg niet goed omgaan met de tegenslag, dus ze weigert het te aanvaarden.
zij
she
niet
not
het
it
kunnen
can
Questions & Answers about Zij kan simpelweg niet goed omgaan met de tegenslag, dus ze weigert het te aanvaarden.
This lesson is about nou eenmaal. Could we use that instead of simpelweg here?
Yes! Both express a sense of inevitability or an unchangeable fact. You could say Zij kan nou eenmaal niet goed omgaan met de tegenslag (She just can't deal with the setback), and it carries the exact same feeling of resignation as simpelweg (simply).
Why doesn't dus cause the verb and subject to invert in the second clause (dus weigert ze)?
Dus (so/therefore) is flexible. Here it acts as a coordinating conjunction (just like en or maar), linking two main clauses without changing the word order. You can also use it as an adverb, which would trigger inversion (..., dus weigert ze...), but the straight word order used here is completely correct and very common.
Aanvaarden starts with aan-. Why isn't the te placed in the middle as aan te vaarden?
Unlike most verbs starting with aan- (like aankomen or aanbieden), aanvaarden is completely inseparable. You can hear this because the vocal stress falls on the second syllable (aan-VAAR-den). Because it never separates, the word stays whole and te is simply placed in front of it.
Could I just use accepteren instead of to mean "to accept"?