Breakdown of Uit de gegevens blijkt dat de marktleider snel groeit.
snel
fast
uit
out of / from
groeien
to grow
dat
that (conjunction)
blijken
to turn out / to appear
de gegevens
the data
de marktleider
the market leader
Questions & Answers about Uit de gegevens blijkt dat de marktleider snel groeit.
Why doesn't the Dutch sentence use het (it) to say blijkt het dat?
In English, we say 'it appears that...' using a dummy subject. In Dutch, when you start the sentence with the prepositional phrase Uit de gegevens, the following dat clause acts as the actual subject of blijkt. Therefore, no het is needed here. If you changed the word order, you would use it: Het blijkt uit de gegevens dat...
Could I use lijkt instead of blijkt here to mean 'appears'?
Not in this context. While lijkt means 'seems' (based on a subjective impression), blijkt means 'turns out' or 'is evident' (based on objective proof). The combination uit [source] blijkt dat is a fixed structure used specifically to present factual evidence from a source like data or a report.
Why does the verb blijkt come directly after Uit de gegevens?
This is the classic Dutch V2 (verb second) rule in action. Because the sentence begins with a prepositional phrase rather than the subject, this phrase takes up the first position. The conjugated verb blijkt must immediately follow in the second position.
Is gegevens treated as singular or plural here?
Gegevens is always plural. The singular noun is het gegeven, which means 'the given' or 'the fact'. While the English word 'data' is often treated as a singular mass noun ('the data is'), you must always treat de gegevens as plural in Dutch.
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