Anna begint te blozen wanneer Tom haar een compliment geeft.

Begint te blozen means begins to blush.

Dutch often uses beginnen + te + infinitive to express to begin/start to do something:

• beginnen te lachen = to start laughing
• beginnen te huilen = to start crying
• beginnen te blozen = to start blushing

So te here works a lot like English to in to blush.

Because wanneer introduces a subordinate clause.

In Dutch subordinate clauses, the conjugated verb usually goes to the end:

• Main clause: Tom geeft haar een compliment.
• Subordinate clause: wanneer Tom haar een compliment geeft

So the word order changes because of wanneer.

Here, haar means her.

It refers back to Anna:

• Tom geeft haar een compliment = Tom gives her a compliment

So haar is the indirect object pronoun here: the person receiving the compliment.

Both are possible, but they are slightly different ways of saying it.

• Tom geeft haar een compliment = Tom gives her a compliment
• Tom complimenteert haar = Tom compliments her

Dutch often uses the expression iemand een compliment geven, and it is very natural. In many everyday contexts, it may sound a bit more idiomatic than using the verb complimenteren.

The sentence has:

1. a main clause: Anna begint te blozen
2. a subordinate clause: wanneer Tom haar een compliment geeft

So the structure is:

Main clause + subordinate clause

If you separate it out:

• Anna = subject
• begint = finite verb
• te blozen = infinitive phrase
• wanneer Tom haar een compliment geeft = time clause

This is a very common Dutch sentence pattern.

In many situations, yes, they can both mean when:

• Anna begint te blozen wanneer Tom haar een compliment geeft
• Anna begint te blozen als Tom haar een compliment geeft

Both are natural.

Very broadly:

• wanneer can sound a bit more explicit or formal
• als is extremely common in everyday speech

In this sentence, either works well.

Because begint is the conjugated verb, and blozen is an infinitive.

In a main clause, Dutch usually puts the conjugated verb in the second position:

• Anna begint te blozen

Here:

• Anna = first element
• begint = second-position finite verb
• te blozen = infinitive phrase

So this is normal Dutch word order.

It is in the present tense:

• begint = begins
• geeft = gives

Dutch often uses the present tense for:

• general truths
• habitual actions
• vivid storytelling
• situations happening now

Depending on context, English might translate it as:

• Anna starts blushing when Tom gives her a compliment
• Anna begins to blush when Tom gives her a compliment

Mostly, yes. Blozen means to blush, usually because of:

• embarrassment
• shyness
• praise
• romantic feelings

In this sentence, it is very natural: Anna blushes because Tom gives her a compliment.

Because geeft is a normal conjugated verb, not an infinitive.

Compare:

• begint te blozen → to blush uses an infinitive, so Dutch has te
• Tom haar een compliment geeft → gives is finite/conjugated, so there is no te

So te is only used with infinitives, not with regular present-tense verbs like geeft.

Yes.

Both are correct:

• wanneer Tom Anna een compliment geeft
• wanneer Tom haar een compliment geeft

Using Anna repeats the name directly. Using haar avoids repetition and sounds very natural once Anna has already been mentioned earlier in the sentence.

Een compliment is the direct object: it is the thing being given.

In Tom geeft haar een compliment:

• Tom = subject
• haar = indirect object, the receiver
• een compliment = direct object, the thing given
• geeft = verb

This is the same pattern as English give someone something.