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Questions & Answers about De verdachte deed een verdachte uitspraak.
Why does this sentence use verdachte for both 'suspect' and 'suspicious'?
Verdacht is the past participle of verdenken (to suspect). Used as a noun, de verdachte means 'the suspect' (the suspected person). Used as an adjective, it means 'suspicious', and it gets an -e ending here to modify the noun uitspraak.
Why is the verb deed used here instead of a translation of 'made'?
English speakers 'make' a statement, but the fixed Dutch expression is een uitspraak doen (literally 'to do a statement'). Therefore, the simple past deed is the natural choice here. Using maakte would sound wrong to native speakers.
Why does the adjective verdacht get an -e ending in een verdachte uitspraak?
Because uitspraak is a de-word (de uitspraak). Adjectives placed before a de-word always get an -e ending. The rule where you drop the -e after een only applies to het-words.