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
de pixel
the pixel
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"?
No. Unlike English, which historically prescribes "less" for uncountable nouns and "fewer" for countable nouns, Dutch simply uses minder for both. You say minder water (less water) and minder pixels (fewer pixels).
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