Word
Zie je dat restaurant? Dat is nieuw.
Meaning
Do you see that restaurant? It is new.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Zie je dat restaurant? Dat is nieuw.
zijn
to be
zien
to see
het restaurant
the restaurant
dat
that (het-words)
Questions & Answers about Zie je dat restaurant? Dat is nieuw.
Why does the first sentence start with zie?
Because it is a yes/no question. In Dutch, you form these by swapping the subject and the verb. The normal statement order je ziet (you see) flips to zie je (do you see). Notice that when je or jij comes right after the verb, the verb loses its -t ending.
Why is it dat restaurant and not die restaurant?
The word you use for 'that' depends on whether the noun is a de-word or a het-word. Because it is het restaurant, you have to use dat. If you were talking about a de-word, you would use die.
The English translation says 'It is new,' but doesn't dat mean 'that'?
Yes, dat literally means 'that.' However, Dutch speakers frequently use dat (for het-words) and die (for de-words) to refer back to a thing that was just mentioned, where English speakers would naturally just say 'it'.
Why doesn't the word nieuw get an -e at the end?