Word
Zij begrijpt dat grillige patroon niet.
Meaning
She does not understand that erratic pattern.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Zij begrijpt dat grillige patroon niet.
zij
she
niet
not
begrijpen
to understand
dat
that (het-words)
Questions & Answers about Zij begrijpt dat grillige patroon niet.
This lesson is about dan weer ... dan weer (now... then). How could we use that phrase to describe a grillig patroon?
Grillig means erratic, capricious, or unpredictable. If a pattern is grillig, you could describe its fluctuations by saying something like: Het is dan weer hoog, dan weer laag (It is sometimes high, sometimes low).
Why does grillige get an -e ending here, even though patroon is a het-word?
You only drop the -e ending for a het-word when it is preceded by the indefinite article een or no article at all (like een grillig patroon). Because we are using the specific demonstrative dat (that), the adjective gets the standard -e ending: dat grillige patroon.
Why does niet come at the very end of the sentence?
The placement of niet depends on what is being negated. Here, it negates the action of understanding a specific direct object (dat grillige patroon). When a direct object is specific (introduced by de, het, dit, dat, or a possessive), niet gets pushed to the end of the clause, right after that object.
What are some other common contexts where I might see the word grillig?