Breakdown of Ik heb overal spierpijn omdat ik grote blokken heb gekloofd.
ik
I
groot
big
hebben
to have
overal
everywhere
Questions & Answers about Ik heb overal spierpijn omdat ik grote blokken heb gekloofd.
This lesson covers the perfect continuous with geweest. How would you change the second half of this sentence to use that structure?
You would change it to omdat ik grote blokken aan het kloven ben geweest. Using the standard present perfect (heb gekloofd) simply states the completed action as the reason for the pain. Using the perfect continuous with geweest emphasizes that you spent a continuous, ongoing period of time doing the activity of splitting those logs.
Doesn't blokken usually mean "blocks" rather than "logs"?
Yes, blokken literally means "blocks." However, in the context of chopping wood or building a fire, a blok (or blok hout) is the standard term for a log or a thick chunk of wood meant for splitting.
What is the infinitive of gekloofd, and why does the past participle end in a -d instead of a -t?
The infinitive is kloven (to split or cleave). To find the correct past participle ending, you look at the last letter of the infinitive stem before the -en, which is a v. Because v is a voiced consonant and not in 't kofschip, the participle gets a -d (gekloofd). This happens even though the spelling changes to an unvoiced f in the singular stem (ik kloof).
Why are both heb and gekloofd at the very end of the sentence?