De teamleider stuurt het thuiswerkverzoek schriftelijk.

Dutch nouns have grammatical gender, and in modern standard Dutch that mainly shows up as whether a noun takes de or het.

• de teamleider: teamleider is a de-word
• het thuiswerkverzoek: thuiswerkverzoek is a het-word

Unfortunately, this usually has to be learned with each noun. There are some patterns, but not all nouns are predictable from meaning alone.

A useful extra point:

• plural nouns always take de
• diminutives always take het

So:

• de teamleider
• de teamleiders
• het thuiswerkverzoek
• de thuiswerkverzoeken

Stuurt is the present tense form of the verb sturen, meaning to send or to direct depending on context.

The subject here is de teamleider, which is third person singular, so the verb becomes:

• ik stuur
• jij stuurt
• hij/zij/de teamleider stuurt
• wij sturen
• jullie sturen
• zij sturen

So de teamleider stuurt is the correct match for a singular subject.

Dutch main clauses usually follow the verb-second rule, often called V2. That means the finite verb goes in the second position.

In this sentence:

• first position: De teamleider
• second position: stuurt

Then the rest follows:

• het thuiswerkverzoek
• schriftelijk

So the basic structure is:

subject + finite verb + object + adverb

If you move another element to the front, the verb still stays in second position:

• Schriftelijk stuurt de teamleider het thuiswerkverzoek.

That sounds more marked or emphatic, but it is grammatically possible.

It is a compound noun, which is extremely common in Dutch. Dutch usually writes compound nouns as a single word.

thuiswerkverzoek is built from:

• thuiswerk = working from home / home working
• verzoek = request

Together, thuiswerkverzoek means a request related to working from home.

English often uses separate words where Dutch prefers one combined word. So a native English speaker may expect something like thuiswerk verzoek, but standard Dutch writes it as thuiswerkverzoek.

Schriftelijk tells you how the request is sent. It means something like:

• in writing
• in written form
• sometimes in a written way

So it functions like an adverb here, modifying stuurt.

The sentence contrasts with other possible ways of sending or communicating something, such as:

• mondeling = orally
• telefonisch = by phone
• digitaal = digitally

Here it functions as an adverb, because it modifies the verb stuurt.

A helpful thing for English speakers: in Dutch, adverbs often have the same form as the adjective.

Compare:

• adjective: het schriftelijke verzoek = the written request
• adverb: Hij reageert schriftelijk = he responds in writing

So in your sentence, schriftelijk is not describing het thuiswerkverzoek directly; it is describing the manner of sending.

In a simple Dutch main clause, adverbs of manner often come after the object, especially in neutral word order.

So this order is very natural:

De teamleider stuurt het thuiswerkverzoek schriftelijk.

That said, Dutch word order is somewhat flexible, and moving schriftelijk can change emphasis:

• De teamleider stuurt schriftelijk het thuiswerkverzoek.
  Possible, but less neutral in many contexts.

The version with schriftelijk at the end sounds like the most straightforward default sentence.

Usually schriftelijk means in writing or in written form, not specifically by physical letter.

So it can include:

• a formal letter
• an email
• a written form
• another written document

If you specifically wanted to say by post or by letter, Dutch would often use something more precise, such as:

• per brief = by letter
• per post = by post

So schriftelijk focuses on the fact that it is written, not necessarily on the medium.

Yes. In Dutch, the present tense can often refer to:

• something happening now
• a habitual action
• a scheduled or near-future action

So depending on context, De teamleider stuurt het thuiswerkverzoek schriftelijk could mean:

• the team leader sends the work-from-home request in writing
• the team leader is sending it in writing
• the team leader will send it in writing

Dutch uses the present tense quite broadly, just like English often does.

Because sturen here takes a direct object: het thuiswerkverzoek. The sentence is simply saying what is being sent.

If you wanted to add the recipient, Dutch could do that in two common ways:

• De teamleider stuurt het thuiswerkverzoek aan HR.
• De teamleider stuurt HR het thuiswerkverzoek.

So your sentence is complete without a recipient because it only focuses on:

• who does it: de teamleider
• what is sent: het thuiswerkverzoek
• how: schriftelijk

Yes. Teamleider is a normal Dutch word. It is made up of:

• team
• leider = leader

Dutch uses many international or borrowed elements in compounds, and once they are part of Dutch vocabulary, they behave like regular Dutch words.

So teamleider is fully natural Dutch, even though one part resembles English. This is very common in modern Dutch vocabulary.