Breakdown of Een onaantrekkelijke transactie wordt meestal voorkomen.
een
a/an
meestal
usually
worden
to become
voorkomen
to prevent
de transactie
the transaction
onaantrekkelijk
unattractive
Questions & Answers about Een onaantrekkelijke transactie wordt meestal voorkomen.
Why doesn't the past participle voorkomen have a ge- prefix?
Because here it comes from the inseparable verb voorkómen (to prevent), which has the stress on the second syllable. Inseparable verbs don't take a ge- prefix in the past participle. Note the difference: if it were the separable verb vóórkomen (to happen or occur), the past participle would be voorgekomen.
How could we use the litotes technique from this lesson to describe a highly favorable transaction?
You could describe it as a niet onaantrekkelijke transactie (a not unattractive transaction). By negating the on- prefix with niet, you use deliberate understatement to strongly emphasize that the transaction is actually very attractive.
Why does onaantrekkelijke end in -e here, even though it comes after een?
A common trap is thinking that een always removes the -e from an adjective. However, you only drop the -e after een if the noun is a het-word. Because transactie is a de-word (de transactie), the adjective keeps its regular -e ending.
How is the passive voice constructed in this sentence?
It uses the auxiliary verb wordt (from worden) in the second position, paired with the past participle voorkomen pushed to the end of the sentence. Dutch uses worden for the passive voice of ongoing or habitual actions, which translates to "is prevented" in English.
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