Breakdown of Wij zien de correlatie vooral in deze grafiek.
wij
we
zien
to see
in
in
deze
this / these
vooral
especially
de grafiek
the chart, the graph
de correlatie
the correlation
Questions & Answers about Wij zien de correlatie vooral in deze grafiek.
Why use zien here instead of a transitive be- verb like bekijken?
Zien simply means 'to see' and is already a transitive verb, meaning it naturally takes a direct object (de correlatie). The verb bekijken, which you are learning in this lesson, means 'to examine' or 'to take a close look at' (derived from the intransitive kijken naar). If the English were 'We examine the correlation,' you would use Wij bekijken de correlatie.
Can I say Wij kijken naar de correlatie instead?
You can, but it changes the meaning from 'seeing' (a general observation) to 'looking at' (an active process). Note that kijken is intransitive and requires the preposition naar. As taught in this lesson, you can drop the preposition by adding the be- prefix to make it a transitive action: Wij bekijken de correlatie.
Why is vooral placed after the direct object de correlatie?
In standard Dutch word order, specific direct objects (like de correlatie) typically come before adverbs. Vooral (especially/mainly) is placed right before the prepositional phrase in deze grafiek because that is the specific piece of information it modifies and highlights.
Why is it deze grafiek and not dit grafiek?
The word for a chart or graph is a de-word (de grafiek). Therefore, 'this chart' must be translated using the demonstrative pronoun deze. You only use dit for het-words.
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