Anna hangt slingers in de feestzaal.

Anna

Breakdown of Anna hangt slingers in de feestzaal.

• in: in
• hangen: to hang
• de slinger: the garland

Questions & Answers about Anna hangt slingers in de feestzaal.

Why is the verb hangt spelled with a t when the infinitive is hangen?

In Dutch, the third-person singular present tense of most verbs adds -t to the verb stem. Here the infinitive hangen has the stem hang-, so for zij (she) or Anna you get zij hangt. The present-tense paradigm looks like this: • ik hang
• jij/u hang(t)
• hij/zij/het hangt
• wij/jullie/zij hangen

What’s the difference between hangen and the separable verb ophangen? When should I use one or the other?

• hangen (intransitive or transitive) simply means “to hang” or “to be hanging.”
Example: Anna hangt slingers in de feestzaal.
• ophangen (separable: hangt op, hingen op) means “to hang up” (put something up).
Example without location: Anna hangt de slingers op.
With location at the end: Anna hangt de slingers in de feestzaal op.
If you front the location: In de feestzaal hangt Anna de slingers op.

Why is there no article before slingers, and could I say de slingers or een slinger?