Breekbare glazen pakken we als laatste uit.

Because Dutch main clauses often put the element you want to emphasize first.

The more neutral order would be:

We pakken breekbare glazen als laatste uit.

By moving Breekbare glazen to the front, the speaker highlights them, as if saying:

Fragile glasses, we unpack those last.

This fronting also causes inversion, so we comes after the finite verb:

• Breekbare glazen = first position
• pakken = finite verb in second position
• we = subject after the verb

This is a very common Dutch word order pattern.

Because uitpakken is a separable verb.

The full verb is uitpakken = to unpack, but in a main clause the prefix uit usually separates from the verb:

• infinitive: uitpakken
• main clause: pakken ... uit

So:

• We pakken de dozen uit. = We unpack the boxes.
• Breekbare glazen pakken we als laatste uit.

This is normal Dutch separable-verb behavior.

Breekbare is the adjective breekbaar, meaning fragile or breakable.

Because it comes before a plural noun, it takes the ending -e:

• breekbaar glas = fragile glass
• breekbare glazen = fragile glasses

That -e ending on adjectives is very common in Dutch when they come before nouns.

Here it means glasses as a noun, usually drinking glasses.

That can be confusing, because glazen can also be an adjective meaning made of glass, as in:

• een glazen tafel = a glass table

But in Breekbare glazen pakken we als laatste uit, glazen stands by itself as the noun. So the phrase means:

• breekbare glazen = fragile glasses

not

• glass something

Dutch often allows bare plural nouns when speaking generally or when the context already makes clear which items are meant.

So:

• Breekbare glazen pakken we als laatste uit.

can naturally mean:

• We unpack fragile glasses last
• or, depending on context, The fragile glasses we unpack last

In English, we often need an article more often than Dutch does. Dutch is more comfortable leaving it out in plural expressions like this.

Als laatste means last, as the last thing, or at the end.

Literally, it is something like as last. In natural English, you would usually translate it as:

• last
• last of all
• as the last thing

For example:

• We drinken koffie als laatste. = We drink coffee last.
• Hij kwam als laatste binnen. = He came in last.

So in this sentence, als laatste tells you the order of unpacking.

That is because of normal Dutch clause structure with a separable verb.

In a main clause:

• the finite verb goes in second position
• other sentence parts usually come after it
• the separable prefix often goes at the end

So the structure is:

• Breekbare glazen = first element
• pakken = finite verb
• we = subject
• als laatste = adverbial phrase
• uit = separable prefix

This is why the sentence ends with uit.

Yes, absolutely.

That version is more neutral and straightforward:

We pakken breekbare glazen als laatste uit.

The original sentence:

Breekbare glazen pakken we als laatste uit.

puts extra focus on breekbare glazen.

So both are correct, but they differ slightly in emphasis.

Usually fragile is the best translation in this sentence.

Technically, breekbaar can mean breakable, but with objects like glasses, English normally prefers fragile.

So:

• Breekbare glazen pakken we als laatste uit.
• We unpack the fragile glasses last.

sounds more natural than We unpack the breakable glasses last.

Because Dutch requires the finite verb to be in second position in main clauses.

If something other than the subject comes first, the subject moves after the verb.

Compare:

• We pakken breekbare glazen als laatste uit.
• Breekbare glazen pakken we als laatste uit.

In the second sentence, Breekbare glazen takes the first position, so pakken must still be second, and we comes after it.

This is called inversion, and it is very common in Dutch.

It can be used more generally, but it strongly suggests a context like moving house, opening boxes, or unpacking stored items.

Because of uitpakken, many learners first think of opening presents, but uitpakken also means to unpack boxes, dishes, kitchen items, and so on.

So this sentence would fit naturally in contexts like:

• moving into a new home
• unpacking kitchenware
• organizing packed items after transport

Not in this expression.

In als laatste, laatste is part of a fixed expression meaning last or as the last one/thing.

You do not say:

• als laatst in this sentence

You normally say:

• als eerste = first
• als tweede = second
• als laatste = last

So als laatste is the standard form to learn here.