Jorge went to the store to pick up a loaf of bread, would you like him to pick you up a loaf of bread as well?
How do you say that in dutch? Also, can you explain the word order and why it was placed that way? I'm trying to learn proper Dutch word order, but I'm having trouble learning all the factors due a lack of example.
Anonymous2009-01-07T10:48:52Z
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"Jurgen ging naar de winkel om een brood te halen, wil je dat jij ook voor jou een brood haalt?"
The word order is quite complicated in Dutch. We normally follow the order Subject / Verb / Object or Complement:
Jorge / koopt / een brood. = Jorge koopt een brood. Jorge / gaat / naar de winkel. = Jorge goes to the store.
If there's an indirect object ("voor jou") and a direct object ("een brood"), the direct object follows the indirect object:
Hij / koopt / ook voor jou / een brood. = He buys buys a bread for you.
We change the order to Verb / Subject / Object or Complement (it's called "inversion") when we ask a question or when we start with something else than the subject, most of the times a temporal complement (not sure about the English term, I mean words indicating a period such as "vandaag", "lang geleden", "zaterdag" etc.):
Wil je dat ... = Do you want ... ? Koopt Jorge een brood? = Does Jorge buy a bread? Vandaag koopt Jorge een brood. = Today, Jorge buys a bread.
In subordinate clause (a sentence introduced by "that"), we put the finite verb in the end of the sentence:
Ik wil dat Jorge een brood koopt = I want that Jorge buys a bread.
The same thing also happens after a number of conjonctions such as "hoewel" (although):
Jorge koopt een brood hoewel hij geen honger heeft = Jorge buys a bread although he isn't hungry.
I hope this helps, if you have any additional questions, "vraag maar raak".