Breakdown of Zolang de thriller spannend is, streamen we elke aflevering.
zijn
to be
we
we (unstressed form of wij)
spannend
exciting
elk
each, every
zolang
as long as
streamen
to stream
de thriller
the thriller
de aflevering
the episode
Questions & Answers about Zolang de thriller spannend is, streamen we elke aflevering.
Why does the second part of the sentence say streamen we instead of we streamen?
The entire first part of the sentence (Zolang de thriller spannend is) acts as a dependent clause taking up the first position. Dutch strictly follows the Verb-Second (V2) rule in main clauses, so the verb streamen must be in the second position, immediately followed by the subject we. This triggers the exact same inversion you see when fronting a topic with phrases like Wat dat betreft, ....
Why is is placed at the very end of the first clause?
Zolang (as long as) is a subordinating conjunction. It introduces a dependent clause, which forces the conjugated verb (is) all the way to the end of that specific clause, right before the comma.
How does the conjugation of the English loanword streamen work here?
English verbs adopted into Dutch get treated like regular Dutch verbs. The stem is stream, and because the subject is the plural we, we just add the standard plural suffix -en to get streamen. If it were singular, it would be ik stream or zij streamt.
I often mix up elk and elke. Why is it elke aflevering here?
Aflevering (episode) is a de-word (de aflevering). When modifying a de-word, determiners like "every" or "each" get an -e ending. You only use the uninflected elk with singular het-words (for example, elk seizoen).
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