Breakdown of Op basis van het diagram groeit het marktaandeel.
het diagram
the chart / the diagram
het marktaandeel
the market share
op basis van
on the basis of
Questions & Answers about Op basis van het diagram groeit het marktaandeel.
How can I rewrite this sentence using the current lesson's grammar, 'blijken uit'?
You could say Uit het diagram blijkt dat het marktaandeel groeit (From the diagram it appears that the market share is growing). Both structures are used to cite evidence, but while op basis van (based on) acts as a prepositional phrase within a single main clause, blijken uit requires you to introduce a subclause with dat, pushing the verb to the end of that part.
Why is the word order 'groeit het marktaandeel' instead of 'het marktaandeel groeit'?
This is a necessary refresher on the V2 (verb-second) rule. Because the sentence begins with the prepositional phrase Op basis van het diagram (which occupies the first position), the finite verb groeit must come immediately after it in the second position. The subject het marktaandeel is inverted and placed right after the verb.
Could I say 'Gebaseerd op het diagram...' instead of 'Op basis van...'?
Grammatically yes, but op basis van is the standard, natural choice in business or analytical contexts to mean 'judging by' or 'on the basis of'. Gebaseerd op is generally reserved for things directly modeled or built upon a source, such as a movie based on a true story (een film gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal).
Why is it 'het marktaandeel' when 'markt' is a 'de' word?
For compound words in Dutch, the gender (and therefore whether you use de or het) is always determined by the very last part of the word. While markt takes de, the word aandeel (share) is a neuter noun taking het. Therefore, the entire compound marktaandeel takes het.
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