Breakdown of Het lettertype rechtsboven is niet meer duidelijk.
zijn
to be
niet
not
meer
more
duidelijk
clear (obvious, comprehensible)
Questions & Answers about Het lettertype rechtsboven is niet meer duidelijk.
Why does the Dutch word rechtsboven translate to "top right" instead of "right top"?
When pinpointing a diagonal location, Dutch compound locative adverbs always put the horizontal direction (links or rechts) before the vertical one (boven or onder). So, English "top right" becomes rechtsboven, and "bottom left" becomes linksonder.
How is rechtsboven acting in this sentence? Can I use it as an adjective before the noun?
In this sentence, rechtsboven is a locative adverb placed directly after the noun to specify exactly which font we mean. You cannot put it before the noun like a standard adjective (you wouldn't write "het rechtsbovene lettertype"). Instead, it naturally sits right after the noun it modifies.
lettertype is made of two words. How do I know if it takes de or het?
Like all compound nouns in Dutch, it takes the gender of its final part. While letter is a common noun (de letter), type is a neuter word (het type). Therefore, the combined word is het lettertype.
I often mix up niet meer and geen meer for "no longer". Why is it niet meer here?