Breakdown of Het nieuwe leiderschap wordt door het team gewaardeerd.
het
it
nieuw
new
het team
the team
worden
to become
waarderen
to appreciate
door
by (agent in a passive sentence)
het leiderschap
the leadership
Questions & Answers about Het nieuwe leiderschap wordt door het team gewaardeerd.
Does the suffix -schap always make a word a het word, as in het leiderschap?
Most nouns ending in -schap that refer to a status, role, or collective are indeed het words (like het moederschap or het lidmaatschap). However, there are some very common exceptions that take de, such as de vriendschap (friendship), de wetenschap (science), and de eigenschap (characteristic or property).
Since leiderschap is a het word, why do we add an -e to nieuw? Shouldn't it be nieuw leiderschap?
The adjective gets the -e ending here because it is preceded by the definite article het. You only drop the -e before a singular het word if you use the indefinite article een or no article at all. So it is het nieuwe leiderschap, but een nieuw leiderschap.
Why is wordt used here for the passive voice instead of is?
Dutch uses worden for an ongoing, dynamic passive—meaning the appreciation is happening right now by the team. If you used is gewaardeerd, you would be forming the perfect tense passive, which implies the action is already finished and we are just looking at the resulting state (translating closer to 'has been appreciated').
What is the base verb for gewaardeerd and how is this past participle formed?
The infinitive is waarderen (to value or appreciate). To form the past participle, you take the stem (waardeer). Because the final letter of the stem is r—which is not in the 't kofschip memorization rule—you add a -d instead of a -t. Add the ge- prefix, and you get gewaardeerd.
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