Word
Zijn huid gloeit na die weldadige warmte.
Meaning
His skin is glowing after that soothing warmth.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Zijn huid gloeit na die weldadige warmte.
zijn
his
die
that / those (de-words and plurals)
na
after (preposition)
de huid
the skin
Questions & Answers about Zijn huid gloeit na die weldadige warmte.
How can I apply the exclamatory of-clause taught in this lesson to this sentence?
You can turn this into an emphatic exclamation by simply putting Of at the beginning: Of zijn huid gloeit na die weldadige warmte! (Boy, is his skin ever glowing after that soothing warmth!). Notice that the word order doesn't invert; it keeps the standard subject-verb order (zijn huid gloeit) just like a normal main clause.
Is the verb here gloeien (to glow) or the separable verb nagloeien (to glow afterwards)?
It is just the standard verb gloeien. The word na here functions purely as the preposition "after" in the phrase na die weldadige warmte (after that soothing warmth). If the writer had used the separable verb nagloeien, they would have likely paired it with the preposition van: Zijn huid gloeit na van die weldadige warmte (His skin is glowing afterwards from that soothing warmth).
The word weldadig translates to "soothing" here. What is its literal meaning?
Just to refresh, why does weldadig get an -e ending here?