Learn Hardcore Dutch: Het stadhuis organiseert morgen een open dag voor alle inwoners. - The city hall is organising an open day for all residents tomorrow.

In Dutch, nouns ending in -huis (“house”) are neuter. Neuter singular nouns take the definite article het, not de. So you say het stadhuis (“the city hall”).

How is organiseert formed from the infinitive organiseren?

Start with the stem organiseer- (infinitive minus -en). For 3rd person singular present tense, you add -t, giving organiseert. The doubled e remains to keep the pronunciation clear.

Why is the simple present tense used here to talk about an event happening morgen?

In Dutch, the present tense often expresses future events when a time word (like morgen) is present. You don’t need a separate future tense form (“will”). So organiseert morgen can mean “is organizing tomorrow” or “will organize tomorrow.”

Where does the time adverb morgen go in the sentence, and can its position change?

A typical Dutch main clause follows Subject – Verb – Time – Object. Hence Het stadhuis (S) organiseert (V) morgen (T) een open dag (O) .... You can also front morgen (“Morgen organiseert het stadhuis…”)—that triggers inversion (verb before subject).

Why is it een open dag and not de open dag?

een is the indefinite article (“a”), indicating it’s one of possibly many open days or simply an event open to everyone. If you said de open dag, you’d refer to a specific, previously mentioned open day.

Is open dag written as one word or two, and why?

Because open is an adjective modifying the noun dag, you write them as two separate words. In Dutch, compounds usually join two nouns; adjective+noun combinations typically stay separate.

Why use voor alle inwoners instead of another preposition?

The preposition voor means “for” in the sense of beneficiary or target audience. Here it indicates all inhabitants are invited. Other prepositions (like aan) would imply different relationships (e.g., giving something to someone).

What role does alle play in voor alle inwoners, and why no extra article?

alle means “all” and functions as a determiner that already specifies the noun. When you use alle, you don’t add de or een. So alle inwoners correctly means “all inhabitants.”

How do you pronounce the ui in stadhuis?

Dutch ui is a diphthong [œy]. Start with a rounded vowel like French eu [œ] and glide into i [ɪ]. So stadhuis sounds roughly like /stɑt-hœy̯s/, often approximated by English speakers as “stah-hoys,” but with more lip rounding on the first part.