Breakdown of Het ontwerp kwam deels door samenwerking tot stand.
het ontwerp
the design
deels
partly
tot stand komen
to come about / to be achieved
Questions & Answers about Het ontwerp kwam deels door samenwerking tot stand.
The lesson is about deels ... deels, but there is only one deels in this sentence. Is that allowed?
Yes. While deels ... deels is used to contrast two elements as "partly ... partly", you can absolutely use a single deels as a regular adverb meaning just "partly" or "in part". Here, it shows that collaboration was one of the factors without explicitly naming the other factor.
What is the infinitive form of kwam ... tot stand?
The infinitive is tot stand komen, which is a fixed expression meaning "to come about", "to be established", or "to be realized". It behaves exactly like a separable verb, which is why tot stand gets pushed to the end of the clause while the conjugated verb kwam stays in the second position.
Why is deels placed exactly where it is in the sentence?
In this sentence, deels acts as an adverb modifying the prepositional phrase door samenwerking (through collaboration). In Dutch, focus adverbs generally sit immediately before the specific element or phrase they modify.
Could I use door middel van instead of just door here?
Yes, door middel van samenwerking (by means of collaboration) would also work perfectly and means the same thing. However, simply using door (through/by) is more concise and very natural in this context.
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