De noodreparatie voorkomt gevolgschade.

The emergency repair prevents consequential damage.

Breakdown of De noodreparatie voorkomt gevolgschade.

• voorkomen: to prevent
• de gevolgschade: the consequential damage
• de noodreparatie: the emergency repair

Questions & Answers about De noodreparatie voorkomt gevolgschade.

Why are noodreparatie and gevolgschade written as one word?

Because Dutch normally writes compound nouns as one word.

• nood + reparatie → noodreparatie = emergency repair
• gevolg + schade → gevolgschade = consequential damage / secondary damage

This is very normal in Dutch. Where English often uses two words, Dutch often combines them into a single compound noun.

The last part of the compound determines the basic meaning and usually also the grammatical gender:

• reparatie is the main word in noodreparatie
• schade is the main word in gevolgschade

Why does the sentence start with de? Why is it de noodreparatie and not het noodreparatie?

Because reparatie is a de-word, so the whole compound noodreparatie is also a de-word.

In Dutch compounds, the final noun decides whether the article is de or het.

• de reparatie
• therefore: de noodreparatie

So you learn the article from the head noun, which here is reparatie.

What exactly does noodreparatie mean?