Breakdown of Fruit bevat veel vezels, toch?
veel
much / many / a lot of
toch
still, anyway (particle) / right? (question tag)
bevatten
to contain
het fruit
the fruit
de vezel
the fiber
Questions & Answers about Fruit bevat veel vezels, toch?
How would I use this lesson's suffixes to say fiber-rich or low-fiber?
You take the singular noun vezel and add the suffixes directly to it. Fiber-rich becomes vezelrijk and low-fiber is vezelarm. While less common for natural food, fiber-free would be vezelvrij.
Fruit takes the singular verb bevat. Is it always singular?
Yes, fruit is an uncountable mass noun in Dutch, exactly as it is in English. To talk about countable pieces, you have to say een stuk fruit (a piece of fruit) or meerdere stuks fruit (multiple pieces of fruit).
Why do we use veel here instead of vele for a plural word like vezels?
In everyday Dutch, the uninflected veel is used for both much (uncountable nouns) and many (plural countable nouns like vezels). You will occasionally see vele, but it feels more formal or poetic, and it emphasizes the individual, distinct nature of the items.
Is toch always translated as right?
At the very end of a statement with a rising intonation, yes! It acts as a tag question asking for agreement (right?, doesn't it?). In the middle of a sentence, however, toch usually means yet, still, or anyway.
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