Learn Dutch: Is deze gouden armband je te zwaar? - Is this golden bracelet too heavy for you?

Both are correct! In Dutch, when you express a personal judgment about an adjective (like being too heavy, too expensive, or too difficult), you can use a dative construction. This means placing the indirect object pronoun (je) directly before the adjective phrase (te zwaar) without using a preposition like voor.

Can I use the stressed pronoun jou in this construction instead of je?

Yes, you can say Is deze gouden armband jou te zwaar? if you want to emphasize that it might be too heavy specifically for you (as opposed to someone else). However, the unstressed je is very common and natural in everyday speech for this specific structure.

Why does the adjective goud get an -en ending (gouden) instead of just an -e?

Adjectives that describe what something is made of (material adjectives) almost always end in -en in Dutch, rather than the standard -e. Other common examples include houten (wooden) and zilveren (silver). They keep this -en ending regardless of the gender or number of the noun they describe.

What dictates the position of je in this sentence? Could I put it at the end?