Word
Het is onmiskenbaar dat de marktleider veel invloed heeft.
Meaning
It is unmistakable that the market leader has a lot of influence.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Het is onmiskenbaar dat de marktleider veel invloed heeft.
zijn
to be
hebben
to have
veel
much / many / a lot of
het
it
Questions & Answers about Het is onmiskenbaar dat de marktleider veel invloed heeft.
This lesson focuses on citing sources with blijken uit, but this sentence does not use it. How could we rewrite it to include a source?
You can easily combine them to cite a source while keeping the strong certainty. For example, Uit het rapport blijkt onmiskenbaar dat de marktleider veel invloed heeft (From the report it unmistakably appears that the market leader has a lot of influence).
What is the root of the adjective onmiskenbaar?
It comes from the verb kennen (to know or acknowledge). Adding the prefix mis- gives miskennen (to fail to appreciate or deny). Adding the suffix -baar (able to be) and the negative prefix on- (un-) creates a word that literally means 'undeniable' or 'unmistakable'.
Why does the verb heeft go at the very end of the sentence?
Because the word dat (that) introduces a subordinate clause. In Dutch subordinate clauses, the conjugated verb is always pushed to the end. This is a fundamental word order rule that remains crucial at the B2 level.
Why is marktleider written as one single word?
In Dutch, compound nouns are glued together into a single word without spaces. While English separates 'market' and 'leader', Dutch merges them into marktleider.