While learning Dutch, you’ll come across the verb worden early and often. It literally means to become, but it’s used in many different, interesting ways, as an auxiliary verb and…
Here’s a confession: I’m quite the aficionado of national anthems, and the Dutch anthem is one of the coolest ones out there. It’s very old, it’s quite long, and it…
Dutch verbs are strange. Not just because of all the quirky rules for conjugation, but also because a lot of them can be split when you perform said conjugation. These…
You’ve probably heard of Amsterdam, and The Hague, and probably Rotterdam. But why are they called that? Are they even called that? Where do these names even originate? And what…
Mainland Netherlands consists of twelve provinces. All of them have a name, which is rather convenient. Some of these names are very old, others find their origins in much more…
Let’s face it: Dutch pronunciation is a bit sloppy. It may not be as bad as English, but it's definitely not as clean as, for example, Spanish, and there are…
Ah, family. Or, as the Dutch say: familie. That was easy, wasn’t it? In fact, since the words we use for relatives are generally very old, there are a lot…
As petite and seemingly adorable as the Netherlands may be, the language spoken here has been around for a good while. As an Indo-European language, Dutch finds its origins well…
What if I told you there’s another thing that’s fairly easy to learn, and that will make you better at a very common part of the Dutch language than a…
This one’s going to confuse English speakers quite a bit, I reckon, but it will be entirely worth it: even is one of the most convenient words in the entire…