De ontvangstbevestiging bevestigt dat het bezwaarschrift is ontvangen.

Ontvangstbevestiging is a compound noun, which is very common in Dutch.

It is made up of:

• ontvangst = receipt / receiving
• bevestiging = confirmation

So ontvangstbevestiging literally means receipt confirmation, or more naturally in English, acknowledgement of receipt.

Dutch often joins nouns together into one word where English would use several words.

Yes, they are related.

• bevestiging = confirmation (noun)
• bevestigt = confirms (verb, present tense)

So:

• De ontvangstbevestiging = the acknowledgement of receipt
• bevestigt = confirms

This kind of repetition is normal in formal Dutch, especially in administrative or legal language.

Bezwaarschrift is another compound noun:

• bezwaar = objection
• schrift = writing / written document

So bezwaarschrift means a formal written objection, often in legal or administrative contexts.

It is more formal and specific than just bezwaar.
A bezwaar is the objection itself; a bezwaarschrift is the written document in which you submit that objection.

Because Dutch nouns take different definite articles:

• de for common-gender nouns
• het for neuter nouns

So you simply have to learn:

• de ontvangstbevestiging
• het bezwaarschrift

Unfortunately, there is not always a clear logical reason from the meaning alone. This is just part of learning each noun with its article.

Because this is a normal Dutch main clause, and Dutch main clauses usually follow the V2 rule: the finite verb comes in the second position.

Here the structure is:

• De ontvangstbevestiging = subject
• bevestigt = finite verb
• dat het bezwaarschrift is ontvangen = rest of the sentence

So bevestigt must come second.

Because dat introduces a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses in Dutch usually send the verbs to the end.

So:

• main clause: De ontvangstbevestiging bevestigt ...
• subordinate clause: dat het bezwaarschrift is ontvangen

In the subordinate clause, the verbal part is ontvangen comes at the end.

This is one of the biggest differences from English.

Because this is a passive construction.

• heeft ontvangen = has received
• is ontvangen = has been received

Here the sentence is not saying who received the objection. It is saying that the objection was received.

So:

• het bezwaarschrift heeft ontvangen would be wrong here, because the objection itself is not doing the receiving
• het bezwaarschrift is ontvangen means the letter of objection has been received

Yes.

The verb is ontvangen = to receive.
Its past participle is also ontvangen.

So in is ontvangen:

• is = auxiliary verb
• ontvangen = past participle

Together they form the passive perfect-like structure meaning has been received.

Because Dutch does not always use a comma before dat the way English often does before that-clauses.

In this sentence, the subordinate clause is a normal essential part of the sentence, so no comma is needed:

• De ontvangstbevestiging bevestigt dat het bezwaarschrift is ontvangen.

A comma here would usually look unnatural.

It is natural, but definitely formal and administrative.

This is the kind of sentence you might see in:

• official letters
• government communication
• legal procedures
• automated acknowledgements

In everyday speech, people would usually say something simpler, such as:

• We bevestigen dat we uw bezwaarschrift hebben ontvangen.
• Uw bezwaarschrift is ontvangen.

But the original sentence is perfectly normal in official writing.

Dutch official style often prefers noun-heavy formulations, much like formal English does.

Compare:

• formal Dutch: De ontvangstbevestiging bevestigt dat ...
• simpler Dutch: Wij bevestigen dat ...

The first sounds more impersonal and bureaucratic. That is often preferred in official writing because it sounds neutral and standardized.

Sometimes, but not always.

• bezwaar = objection
• bezwaarschrift = written objection / notice of objection

In casual contexts, people may loosely say bezwaar even when they mean the document. But in legal or administrative language, bezwaarschrift is more precise because it refers to the actual written submission.

So in this sentence, bezwaarschrift is the better formal choice.

A very literal breakdown would be:

• De ontvangstbevestiging = the acknowledgement of receipt
• bevestigt = confirms
• dat = that
• het bezwaarschrift = the notice of objection / written objection
• is ontvangen = has been received

So literally:

The acknowledgement of receipt confirms that the written objection has been received.

Even though the meaning may sound repetitive in English, this is quite normal in formal Dutch.