Breakdown of Je moet alle stukken deeg na het rijzen uitrollen.
het stuk
the piece
het
it
moeten
to have to, must
je
you (unstressed form of jij)
na
after (preposition)
alle
all (general plurals)
het deeg
the dough
uitrollen
to roll out
rijzen
to rise (dough, questions)
Questions & Answers about Je moet alle stukken deeg na het rijzen uitrollen.
Why do we use alle here instead of hele?
In Dutch, alle means 'all' (every single one of a group), while heel or hele means 'whole' or 'entire'. Since you need to roll out every piece in the batch, you use alle. If you used hele stukken deeg, it would mean 'entire pieces of dough' (emphasizing that the pieces are not broken or partial) rather than 'all the pieces'.
Why is there no translation for 'of' between stukken and deeg?
Dutch routinely drops the preposition van (of) when expressing a quantity, container, or piece of a substance. Just like you would say een glas water (a glass of water), you simply say stukken deeg (pieces of dough).
Why is the verb rijzen (to rise) preceded by het?
Here, the verb rijzen is turned into a noun to mean 'the rising' (a process often called nominalization). When you use an infinitive verb as a noun in Dutch, it always takes the neuter definite article het.
Uitrollen is a separable verb. Why are the two parts written together at the end of the sentence?
The modal verb moet (must or have to) pushes the main verb to the end of the clause in its full infinitive form. When a separable verb is placed at the end of a sentence as an infinitive, its prefix (uit) and the verb (rollen) are written together as a single word.
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