Before we start: I’m very sorry, for this post title isn’t really cutting everything I’m going to talk about. Sorry is a very common word in Dutch, and while it’s…
When you think of the Netherlands, wooden shoes might well be one of the first things to come to mind - rather than wood shoes, as you might expect it…
Figuring out which auxiliary verb to choose in a sentence, to be or to have, is a difficult thing to master in many languages - I mean, even Shakespeare clearly…
When you’ve spent some time in a Dutch speaking region, odds are you’ve heard the word helemaal being thrown around a few times. It makes sense, because it’s a rather…
The W is a bit of an oddball, isn’t it? It’s kind of two letters combined, but which ones is up for debate. Dutch features it too, and although it…
Dutch verb conjugation can get quite tricky, even for Dutch people, and the past participle form is definitely partially to blame. While it is perfectly simple for most regular verbs,…
Many languages have several ways in which you can require someone to do something, either in a very polite manner, or a tad more forceful. Dutch speakers often use moeten…
Every Latin and Germanic language out there (and many others, too) comes with a ton of tiny little words that describe a relationship to an object, a location, or a…
Ah, the Q. Such a lovely little letter. It’s quite common, too, especially in French and Latin, and therefore in many other languages around the world, including English. But not…
When reading a Dutch text, you’ll come across the same word twice in a row a bit more often than you would in most other languages. It can be an…