Breakdown of Uit dit diagram blijkt dat ons marktaandeel stijgt.
ons
our
dit
this (neuter)
uit
out of / from
dat
that (conjunction)
blijken
to turn out / to appear
stijgen
to rise
het diagram
the chart / the diagram
het marktaandeel
the market share
Questions & Answers about Uit dit diagram blijkt dat ons marktaandeel stijgt.
Why do we use uit instead of van to mean 'from' in this sentence?
The verb blijken (to appear / be evident) forms a fixed combination with the preposition uit when you want to state the source of your information. You will see blijken uit used frequently in professional or academic contexts, similar to 'is evident from' or 'is shown by' in English.
The English translation says 'it appears', but where is the word for 'it' (het) in the Dutch sentence?
In Dutch, when a sentence starts with a prepositional phrase like Uit dit diagram and is followed by a dat-clause, the provisional subject het (it) is usually omitted. You could theoretically say Uit dit diagram blijkt het dat..., but leaving het out sounds much more natural and is standard practice.
Why does the verb blijkt come immediately after diagram?
This is a classic example of the V2 (verb-second) rule. Because the entire prepositional phrase Uit dit diagram occupies the first position in the sentence, the finite verb blijkt must take the second position, right before the subordinate clause.
Why is the possessive pronoun ons used here instead of onze?
Marktaandeel is a compound noun ending in aandeel, which is a het word (het aandeel). For singular het words, the possessive pronoun for 'our' is always ons. If it were a de word or a plural noun, you would use onze.
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