u/WonderfulYoongi

My question basically is how do you choose between the two word orders? Are there cases where only one word order is correct? Because before I was under the impression that it was only in (past participle + hebben/zijn) where the green word order was possible so:

"Hij weet dat ik piano gespeeld heb" or "...heb gespeeld"

But not

"Hij weet dat ik piano spelen kan"

But the more I read about this the more it seems like it might maybe be more complicated. Is this a matter of dialect variation? Or formality? Should I stick to red word order to be safe or would that sound unnatural? Do the two even have a significant difference?

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u/WonderfulYoongi — 21 days ago