Breakdown of Morgen werken meerdere vrijwilligers samen aan het project.
morgen
tomorrow
samen
together
werken
to work
aan
on
meerdere
several
het project
the project
de vrijwilliger
the volunteer
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Questions & Answers about Morgen werken meerdere vrijwilligers samen aan het project.
What does morgen mean in this sentence? Can it also mean “morning”?
Here morgen means tomorrow. In Dutch, morgen without an article usually refers to the day after today. To talk about the morning of a day, you would say in de morgen or use de morgen (e.g. “in de morgen”).
Why is the verb werken placed right after morgen and before the subject meerdere vrijwilligers?
Dutch main clauses follow the V2‐rule: the finite verb must be in second position. When you start with a time adverbial (morgen = position 1), the verb (werken) moves into position 2, and the subject (meerdere vrijwilligers) follows.
Why is the present tense used here, even though it talks about a future action?
Dutch commonly uses the present tense for planned future events, much like English “Tomorrow we work together on the project.” If you want to emphasize the future, you can insert zullen:
Morgen zullen meerdere vrijwilligers samen aan het project werken.
What does meerdere mean, and how is it different from meer or de meeste?
Meerdere means several or multiple.
• Meer means more (comparative).
• De meeste means the most (superlative).
So meerdere vrijwilligers = several volunteers (more than one, unspecified), not “the most volunteers.”
Why is there no article (like de or een) before meerdere vrijwilligers?
In Dutch, indefinite plural nouns typically don’t take an article. Meerdere vrijwilligers simply means several volunteers. If you meant a specific group you already know, you’d say de vrijwilligers (the volunteers).
Is samen part of a separable verb here? Should it be one word (samenwerken)?
In this sentence samen is an adverb meaning together, and werken is the verb. You write them as two words: werken samen. The noun samenwerking (collaboration) is one word, but the verb‐phrase stays separate.
Why is the preposition aan used with het project? Could you say op het project instead?
When you talk about working on something in Dutch, you use werken aan. Using op would suggest physical location (“on top of”). So samenwerken aan het project = working together on the project.
Why is it het project instead of een project?
Using het project (the project) shows you’re referring to a specific project known to listener and speaker. If you’re introducing a project in general, you could say een project (a project).