Word
Zij postte het nieuwe blog vanmorgen.
Meaning
She posted the new blog this morning.
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Questions & Answers about Zij postte het nieuwe blog vanmorgen.
Why does postte have a double 't'?
The Dutch verb is posten, borrowed from English. To form the past tense, we take the stem (post) and look at its final letter ('t'). Because 't' is a voiceless consonant (it is in the 't kofschip rule), we add the suffix -te. Combining the stem post with the ending -te results in postte.
Do I pronounce both 't's in postte?
No, you just pronounce a single 't' sound. The double 't' in writing shows the grammatical structure of the past tense. In speech, you just pronounce the English loanword stem followed by a short schwa sound for the suffix: "pos-tuh".
Why is it het nieuwe blog instead of het nieuw blog?
Because blog is a neuter (het) word, and this phrase uses the definite article het. When a het-word is preceded by het, the adjective gets the standard -e ending. It would only drop the -e if it were indefinite, as in een nieuw blog.
Why use vanmorgen instead of deze morgen?