Breakdown of Wij gaan de commissie de te herzien subsidie doorsturen.
wij
we
gaan
to go / to go off (of an alarm)
te
to (infinitive marker)
de commissie
the committee
herzien
to revise
de subsidie
the subsidy / the grant
doorsturen
to forward
Questions & Answers about Wij gaan de commissie de te herzien subsidie doorsturen.
How does de te herzien subsidie work to mean "the subsidy to be revised"?
This is the attributive modal infinitive. By placing te + an infinitive directly before a noun, it acts as an adjective expressing a passive obligation or possibility. It literally translates to something like "the to-be-revised subsidy" or "the subsidy that must be revised."
Since it acts as an adjective with a de-word, why doesn't herzien get an -e ending here?
Even though it modifies a noun like an adjective, it is still a verb infinitive. In Dutch, infinitives that already end in -en usually do not get an extra -e ending in this construction. Therefore, it remains de te herzien subsidie, rather than de te herziene subsidie.
Why does the sentence use de commissie instead of aan de commissie (to the committee)?
In Dutch, you can leave out the preposition aan (to) when the indirect object (de commissie) is placed directly before the direct object (de te herzien subsidie). If you wanted to put it after the direct object, you would need to use the preposition: ...de te herzien subsidie aan de commissie doorsturen.
Doorsturen is a separable verb. Why are its parts attached as one word at the end of this sentence?
Because the sentence uses the auxiliary verb gaan (are going to), the main verb doorsturen is forced into its full infinitive form at the end of the clause. When a separable verb acts as a full infinitive at the end of a sentence, its prefix (door) and the verb (sturen) remain attached as a single word.
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