De schade-expert bezoekt het droogbedrijf.

Dutch nouns are divided into de-words and het-words.

• schade-expert is a de-word, so you say de schade-expert
• droogbedrijf is a het-word, so you say het droogbedrijf

A useful pattern is that nouns referring to people are very often de-words, so de expert makes sense.
Also, in compounds, the last part usually determines the article. Since bedrijf is a het-word (het bedrijf), droogbedrijf is also a het-word.

So:

• de expert → de schade-expert
• het bedrijf → het droogbedrijf

Bezoekt is the present tense form of the verb bezoeken (to visit).

The subject is de schade-expert, which is third person singular (he/she/it form), so Dutch adds -t in the present tense:

• ik bezoek = I visit
• jij bezoekt = you visit
• hij/zij/de expert bezoekt = he/she/the expert visits

So:

• De schade-expert bezoekt het droogbedrijf. = The damage expert visits the drying company.

Yes. This is the standard Dutch main-clause word order:

Subject + verb + object

• De schade-expert = subject
• bezoekt = verb
• het droogbedrijf = object

So the sentence structure is very similar to English:

• The damage expert visits the drying company.

Dutch often matches English word order in simple main clauses like this.

Dutch very often forms compound nouns by writing them as one word. That is why droogbedrijf is written together:

• droog
  • bedrijf → droogbedrijf

The hyphen in schade-expert is there because Dutch sometimes uses a hyphen to make compounds clearer or easier to read, especially when one part is a more international-looking word like expert.

So both are compounds, but they are written differently:

• droogbedrijf = closed compound
• schade-expert = hyphenated compound

This is mostly a spelling convention, not a grammar difference.

It usually means a damage assessor, loss adjuster, or insurance damage expert—someone who examines damage, often after an accident, fire, or water leak.

So this is not just any expert on damage in a general sense. In practical Dutch, it often refers to a professional who inspects damage for insurance or repair purposes.

Literally, it is a drying company:

• droog = dry / drying
• bedrijf = company / business

In real-life usage, it often means a company that dries buildings or materials after water damage, leaks, flooding, and similar problems.

So in context, het droogbedrijf is likely a specialist company involved in drying out a damaged property.

No. Bezoeken normally takes a direct object with no preposition.

So you say:

• Ik bezoek het museum.
• Zij bezoekt haar oma.
• De schade-expert bezoekt het droogbedrijf.

This is similar to English visit:

• I visit the museum
• not I visit to the museum

So in this sentence, het droogbedrijf is simply the direct object of bezoekt.

You can tell from the article het and the form of the noun.

• het droogbedrijf = the drying company / singular
• plural would be de droogbedrijven = the drying companies

Also, the verb is singular:

• De schade-expert bezoekt het droogbedrijf.

If the object were plural, you might see:

• De schade-expert bezoekt de droogbedrijven.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• De → duh
• schade-expert → roughly SKHAA-duh ex-PAIRT
• bezoekt → roughly buh-ZOOKT
• het → often reduced, like ut
• droogbedrijf → roughly DROHKH-buh-draif

A few important sounds:

• sch at the start of schade is a hard Dutch sound, not like English sh
• g in droog is also a throaty Dutch sound
• oe in bezoekt sounds like oo in food
• ij is a Dutch vowel sound somewhat like eye

The exact pronunciation depends a bit on accent, but those are the main points.

Yes, but it means something slightly different in style.

• De schade-expert bezoekt het droogbedrijf.
  = straightforward: The damage expert visits the drying company.

• De schade-expert is op bezoek bij het droogbedrijf.
  = literally: The damage expert is visiting / is on a visit to the drying company.

The second version sounds a little more descriptive and uses the expression op bezoek bij (on a visit to / visiting).

So both are possible, but bezoekt is the simpler and more direct verb.

Yes, expert is a de-word:

• de expert
• plural: de experts

This fits a common pattern: nouns for people are usually de-words.
That is why the compound is also:

• de schade-expert

because the final noun expert determines the gender/article of the compound.