Word
Verder moet je het luchtbed opblazen.
Meaning
Furthermore, you have to inflate the air mattress.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Verder moet je het luchtbed opblazen.
moeten
to have to, must
verder
further
je
you (unstressed form of jij)
het luchtbed
the air mattress
Questions & Answers about Verder moet je het luchtbed opblazen.
Does the 'er' in verder trigger 'er' deletion if we added an er to this sentence?
No. Only the actual pronoun er (and sometimes locatives like hier, daar, or waar) interact with 'er' deletion rules. The letters 'er' inside a regular adverb like verder have no grammatical effect on whether you can use the pronoun er elsewhere. For example, you can safely say Verder is er niets (Furthermore, there is nothing).
Why does the sentence use the word order moet je instead of je moet?
Opblazen is a separable verb. Why isn't it split in this sentence?
Separable verbs only split when they are the conjugated verb in a main clause. Here, the modal verb moet is the conjugated verb, which forces the main verb opblazen to the very end of the sentence in its full, unsplit infinitive form.
If I wanted to replace het luchtbed with a pronoun, would I use er?