Word
Wat dit genre betreft, streamen we het zelden.
Meaning
As for this genre, we rarely stream it.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Wat dit genre betreft, streamen we het zelden.
dit
this (neuter)
het
it
we
we (unstressed form of wij)
zelden
rarely
Questions & Answers about Wat dit genre betreft, streamen we het zelden.
How does the phrase wat ... betreft work to mean 'as for'?
In Dutch, wat and betreft wrap around the noun phrase you want to highlight. Here, they wrap around dit genre (this genre) to form Wat dit genre betreft, which sets up the topic before giving more information about it.
Why is the verb streamen placed before the subject we?
The entire phrase Wat dit genre betreft counts as the first position in the sentence. Because Dutch enforces a strict verb-second (V2) rule in main clauses, the conjugated verb streamen must come next, forcing the subject we to swap places with it.
Is streamen conjugated like a normal Dutch verb even though it is an English word?
Yes, English loan verbs are almost always adapted into the standard Dutch conjugation system. Here, the stem 'stream' just gets the regular plural -en ending to match the subject we.
Why does the word dit point to genre instead of deze?
Genre is a neuter noun borrowed from French (het genre). Because it is a het-word, 'this genre' must be translated using the neuter demonstrative pronoun dit.