De professor beoordeelt onze scripties volgende week.

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Breakdown of De professor beoordeelt onze scripties volgende week.

• volgend: next
• de week: the week
• de professor: the professor

Questions & Answers about De professor beoordeelt onze scripties volgende week.

Why is beoordeelt (present tense) used even though the action happens volgende week (next week)? Wouldn’t a future tense be more correct?

Dutch very often uses the present tense to talk about the near future, especially for planned or scheduled events.

So De professor beoordeelt onze scripties volgende week is like English The professor is grading / grades our theses next week.

You can also use a future form:

• De professor zal onze scripties volgende week beoordelen.
• De professor gaat onze scripties volgende week beoordelen.

These are both correct. The simple present (beoordeelt) often sounds a bit more neutral and natural in everyday Dutch when the future time is clear from context (volgende week).

Why does the verb come second: De professor beoordeelt…? Could I say De professor onze scripties beoordeelt volgende week?

Dutch main clauses follow the verb‑second (V2) rule:

1. Position 1: one element (often the subject)
2. Position 2: the conjugated verb
3. The rest of the sentence

In your sentence:

• De professor = position 1 (subject)
• beoordeelt = position 2 (conjugated verb)
• onze scripties volgende week = the rest

So De professor beoordeelt onze scripties volgende week is correct.

De professor onze scripties beoordeelt volgende week is wrong because the conjugated verb is no longer in second position.