Breakdown of Sinds vorige maand werk ik drie dagen per week thuis.
Questions & Answers about Sinds vorige maand werk ik drie dagen per week thuis.
Dutch follows a “verb second” (V2) word order. When you start a sentence with an element other than the subject (here Sinds vorige maand), the finite verb moves to the second position, pushing the subject after it:
“Sinds vorige maand” (1) – “werk” (2) – “ik” (3) – rest.
Sinds vorige maand means “since last month.”
• You can replace vorige (“previous”) with other time markers:
- sinds maart (“since March”)
- sinds vorige week (“since last week”)
• You cannot omit sinds if you want to express “since.”
Yes. If you keep the subject first, you revert to normal SVO order (Subject–Verb–Object/adverbials):
Ik (1) – werk (2) – sinds vorige maand (3) – drie dagen per week (4) – thuis (5).
It’s correct, but starting with the time expression emphasizes when you began.
Drie dagen per week literally means “three days per week.”
• per here is a preposition used to indicate frequency (“each,” “every”).• It’s the standard way in Dutch to talk about how often something happens in a given time unit.