Word
Het hoofdgerecht is warm en ik ben blij.
Meaning
The main course is warm and I am happy.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Het hoofdgerecht is warm en ik ben blij.
Why is it “het hoofdgerecht” and not “de hoofdgerecht”?
Because gerecht is a neuter noun, so its definite article in the singular is het: het gerecht, het hoofdgerecht. In the plural, all nouns take de: de gerechten, de hoofdgerechten. There’s no fully reliable rule to predict de/het; learn the gender with each noun.
Why is “hoofdgerecht” one word instead of two?
Dutch writes compounds as a single word. Hoofdgerecht = hoofd (head/main) + gerecht (dish/course). You only use a hyphen for readability, with certain proper names, or at a line break. So: hoofdgerecht, not “hoofd gerecht” in normal running text.
Why is it “warm” and not “warme” after “is”?
How would the adjective look before the noun in different article situations?