Word
De vergrote foto heeft een slechte resolutie.
Meaning
The enlarged photo has a bad resolution.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of De vergrote foto heeft een slechte resolutie.
een
a/an
hebben
to have
slecht
bad
de foto
the photo
Questions & Answers about De vergrote foto heeft een slechte resolutie.
Why is it vergrote with only one o and one t, instead of vergrootte?
The verb is vergroten (to enlarge). Its past participle is vergroot. When we use a past participle as an adjective before a noun, we add an -e (de vergrote foto). Because adding the -e puts the o in an open syllable (ver-gro-te), Dutch spelling rules dictate we must drop one o to keep the vowel sounding long. We don't add an extra t because we are just adding an -e to the base participle vergroot.
Wait, doesn't the past tense of vergroten have two o's and two t's? How do I tell them apart?
Yes, the simple past tense is vergrootte (e.g., ik vergrootte de foto - I enlarged the photo). That is formed using the verb stem (vergroot) plus the past tense ending (-te). But in this sentence, vergrote is an adjective describing the photo. Adjectives formed from past participles just take the participle (vergroot) and add a single -e, which triggers the spelling shift to vergrote.
Why doesn't the past participle vergroot start with ge-?
Verbs that start with an inseparable prefix like ver-, be-, ont-, or her- do not get an extra ge- in their past participle form. Since vergroten already starts with ver-, its past participle is simply vergroot.