Breakdown of Deze bovennatuurlijke held is natuurlijk onsterfelijk.
zijn
to be
deze
this / these
natuurlijk
of course, naturally
de held
the hero
Questions & Answers about Deze bovennatuurlijke held is natuurlijk onsterfelijk.
Why does natuurlijk go right after the verb is instead of at the end of the sentence?
Because natuurlijk acts as a sentence-level adverb of evaluation here, giving the speaker's opinion on the whole situation. In Dutch word order, these evaluation adverbs sit in the middle field, typically right after the finite verb and before a predicate adjective like onsterfelijk.
Could I start the sentence with natuurlijk?
Yes, you can move sentence-level adverbs to the first position to emphasize them. This would trigger inversion, resulting in Natuurlijk is deze bovennatuurlijke held onsterfelijk.
Does natuurlijk mean 'in a natural way' or 'of course' in this context?
Here it means 'of course' or 'obviously'. As an adverb of evaluation, it shows the speaker thinks the immortality is a logically expected fact given the context, rather than describing the physical way the hero lives.
Why is there an -e at the end of bovennatuurlijke but not on onsterfelijk?
Adjectives placed directly before a noun take an -e ending, and since held is a de word, we use bovennatuurlijke. However, onsterfelijk is a predicate adjective functioning as the complement of the verb is, and predicate adjectives in Dutch never take an -e ending.