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🇳🇱 Dutch
NederlandsLatin

Big idea: V2 word order (and ‘verb-last’ in subordinate clauses): Subordinate clause (verb-last)

Dutch keeps the finite verb 2nd in main clauses, but pushes it to the end in many subordinate clauses.

Subordinate clause (verb-last)

After words like dat (that), the verb often goes to the end.

  • Ik denk dat ik vandaag naar huis ga.
Ik denk dat ik vandaag naar huis ga.
I think that I go home today.