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Questions & Answers about Ik zie een groot gebouw.
What is the basic word order in the sentence “Ik zie een groot gebouw” and how does it compare to English?
The sentence follows the Subject–Verb–Object (SVO) order, just like in English. "Ik" is the subject (I), "zie" is the verb (see), and "een groot gebouw" is the object (a big building).
What does the word Ik mean in this sentence?
Ik translates to I in English and serves as the first-person singular pronoun.
How is the verb zien conjugated in this sentence?
The verb zien (to see) is conjugated as zie for the first-person singular. Thus, ik zie directly means I see.
What role does the indefinite article een play in the sentence?
Een functions as the indefinite article, equivalent to a or an in English. It indicates that the noun gebouw is unspecified.
Why is the adjective groot not inflected to grote?
In Dutch, when an adjective precedes a singular neuter noun with an indefinite article, it typically remains uninflected. Since gebouw is a neuter noun and the sentence uses een, the correct form is groot rather than grote.
What does gebouw mean, and does its grammatical gender affect the adjective?
Gebouw means building in English. It is a neuter noun (usually preceded by het when definite), and because it appears with the indefinite article een in this sentence, the adjective remains in its uninflected form as groot.