De klimroute heeft een moeilijkheidsgraad.

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Breakdown of De klimroute heeft een moeilijkheidsgraad.

• een: a, an
• de klimroute: the climbing route
• de moeilijkheidsgraad: the difficulty grade

Questions & Answers about De klimroute heeft een moeilijkheidsgraad.

Why is it de klimroute and not het klimroute?

Because route is a de-word in Dutch, and the compound klimroute keeps the gender of its final part.

A useful rule is:

• in Dutch compounds, the last element usually determines
  • the grammatical gender
  • the plural form
  • the basic type of noun

So:

• de route
• therefore de klimroute

This is very common in Dutch compounds.

What exactly is klimroute?

Klimroute is a compound noun:

• klim = climb / climbing
• route = route

So klimroute literally means climbing route.

In Dutch, compounds are usually written as one word, much more often than in English. So where English might write climbing route, Dutch normally writes klimroute.

Why does the sentence use heeft instead of something like is?