Breakdown of De verlaagde resolutie zorgt voor minder pixels.
weinig
little / few
zorgen voor
to take care of
verlagen
to reduce
de resolutie
the resolution
Questions & Answers about De verlaagde resolutie zorgt voor minder pixels.
Why does verlaagde keep the double aa, whereas a word like vergrote drops a vowel?
It comes down to standard Dutch spelling rules. The past participle of verlagen is verlaagd. When adding the adjectival -e, we divide the syllables as ver-laag-de. Because the syllable laag ends in a consonant (g), it is a closed syllable. To keep the long vowel sound, we must write aa. In contrast, vergroot plus -e becomes ver-gro-te; the o is in an open syllable, so a single o is enough to make a long sound.
I learned that zorgen voor means "to care for". Why does it mean "causes" here?
While zorgen voor literally means "to take care of" (like a person or a pet), it is also the standard Dutch way to say "to cause", "to result in", or "to ensure" when talking about inanimate things, systems, or processes.
Why doesn't the word minder get an -e at the end?
Minder (less/fewer) and meer (more) act as quantifiers rather than standard adjectives. Therefore, they never take an -e inflection when placed directly before a noun.
Pixels are countable. Is there a Dutch equivalent to the English rule distinguishing "fewer" from "less"?