Breakdown of Lees de bijsluiter voor de dosering.
lezen
to read
voor
for
de bijsluiter
the package leaflet
de dosering
the dosage
Questions & Answers about Lees de bijsluiter voor de dosering.
What form is Lees?
Lees is the imperative form of lezen, meaning read!
So the sentence is giving an instruction or command:
- lezen = to read
- Lees! = Read!
In Dutch, the imperative usually uses the verb stem, which is why the sentence starts with Lees.
Why is it lees with ee, when the infinitive is lezen?
This is because of Dutch spelling rules.
The infinitive is lezen. If you remove -en, the stem is pronounced with a long ee sound, so it is written lees to keep that long vowel.
Compare:
- lezen → lees
- geven → geef
- nemen → neem
So lees is not a different root; it is just the correctly spelled stem of lezen.
Why is there no subject, like je or u?