Breakdown of De thermometer meet mijn temperatuur vóór behandeling.
mijn
my
voor
before
de temperatuur
the temperature
meten
to measure
Questions & Answers about De thermometer meet mijn temperatuur vóór behandeling.
What does meet mean here?
Meet is the present-tense form of meten, which means to measure.
So De thermometer meet mijn temperatuur means The thermometer measures my temperature. In English, depending on context, you might also translate it as is measuring.
Why is it spelled meet, and not met or meett?
The infinitive is meten. When Dutch forms the verb stem, it keeps the long vowel sound, so meten becomes meet.
That gives:
- ik meet
- jij meet
- hij/zij/het meet
It is not meett because the stem already ends in -t. Dutch does not add another t in forms like this.
Also, met is already a different word in Dutch: it means with.
Why is it de thermometer and not het thermometer?