Questions & Answers about Zit gelukkig mee.
Why does this sentence start with the verb Zit instead of a subject?
This is an example of conversational topic drop. In spoken Dutch, an unstressed subject or object at the very beginning of a sentence is often left out. The full sentence is Het zit gelukkig mee. By dropping Het, we are left with a verb-first declarative sentence.
What is the infinitive of the verb here, and how is it used?
The verb is the separable verb meezitten. Literally, it means to sit with or to sit along, but it is used idiomatically to mean that things are going your way, going smoothly, or that you are having luck.
If I want to emphasize gelukkig by putting it at the beginning, can I still drop the subject?
Does gelukkig always mean luckily?
Not always. As an adjective, gelukkig means happy, like in een gelukkig kind. However, when used as an adverb to comment on a whole sentence, like it is here, it translates to luckily or fortunately.
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