Breakdown of Het meisje komt achter het klimrek tevoorschijn springen.
het meisje
the girl
komen
to come
het
it
springen
to jump
achter
behind
het klimrek
the climbing frame
tevoorschijn
into view / out
Questions & Answers about Het meisje komt achter het klimrek tevoorschijn springen.
Why does this sentence use the infinitive springen instead of the present participle springend for "jumping"?
This is the "manner of arrival" construction. When you want to describe how someone arrives or approaches in Dutch, you use komen combined with a bare infinitive (like springen, lopen, or fietsen). While English uses the "-ing" form ("comes jumping"), Dutch strictly requires the infinitive.
The English translation says "out from behind", but the Dutch just says achter (behind). Why isn't there a word for "from"?
In Dutch, the sense of moving "out from" is entirely handled by the verb komen and the particle tevoorschijn (which means "forth" or "into view"). Because the outward motion is already obvious from that combination, you only need the static preposition achter to identify the location of the hiding spot.
Is tevoorschijn grammatically connected to komen or to springen?
It is connected to komen. The base expression is the separable verb tevoorschijn komen (to emerge or come into view). In this sentence, the manner of arrival (springen) is added to the end of that expression, giving us the structure: conjugated komen + location + tevoorschijn + infinitive.
What is the literal meaning of tevoorschijn?
It literally translates to "to the appearance" or "into view". It's a fixed compound made from the old preposition te (to/at) and voorschijn (appearance/front). You will almost always see it paired with either komen (to emerge) or halen (to bring out / to produce).
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