Breakdown of Uit de prognose blijkt dat er een grote schommeling aankomt.
een
a/an
groot
big
uit
out of / from
aankomen
to arrive
er
there (existential)
dat
that (conjunction)
blijken
to turn out / to appear
de prognose
the forecast (prognosis, based on data)
de schommeling
the fluctuation
Questions & Answers about Uit de prognose blijkt dat er een grote schommeling aankomt.
Why do we use uit instead of van to mean "from" in this sentence?
The verb blijken (to appear / to turn out) takes the fixed preposition uit when citing a source of information. The structure Uit [source] blijkt dat... is very common in Dutch news and formal reports to mean "According to [source]..." or "From [source] it is evident that...".
What is the subject of the verb blijkt here?
The subject is actually the entire subordinate clause: dat er een grote schommeling aankomt. If you rearranged the sentence to its most basic form, it would be [Dat er een grote schommeling aankomt] blijkt uit de prognose. Because we start with the prepositional phrase Uit de prognose for emphasis, the verb blijkt must take the second position, pushing the clausal subject to the end.
Why is er used right after dat?
Er acts as a dummy subject here to introduce an indefinite real subject, which is een grote schommeling (a large fluctuation). Because it uses een instead of de, it is new, indefinite information. Just like in English where you say "that THERE is a large fluctuation coming," Dutch requires er when bringing an indefinite subject into the picture.
Is aankomt a separable verb, and why is it written as one word here?
Yes, it is the separable verb aankomen (to arrive / to approach). Because it is located inside a subordinate clause introduced by dat, all verbs get pushed to the very end of the sentence. When a separable verb is sent to the end of a clause like this, its prefix (aan) and the conjugated verb (komt) are stitched back together into a single word.
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