Stop doing what you’re doing and focus on this post! If you recognized that first sentence as the imperative mood, or directive, you’ve already got a head start. Dutch also…
Like many other languages, Dutch features both regular and irregular verbs. While the regular verbs have a basic set of instructions that allow you to calculate every possible version of…
Despite the fact that the Dutch may not be regarded as the most polite people in the world, we still do say thanks and please quite a lot. The Dutch…
When you’re learning a new language, it’s always nice to know the main ways of greeting someone, or wishing them well when you leave. Dutch, like most languages, has a…
While English has a single word for you, Dutch has two - even in the basic, informal, singular sense of the word. One is je, the other is jij. There’s…
Jan de Bruin, Sanne van Dam, Hans in ‘t Veld… Dutch last names can look somewhat strange to non-native speakers. Once you know what all these little additions mean, they…
If you’ve been reading enough Dutch, you’ll have come across one of the strangest uses of apostrophes and capital letters you’ll have ever seen. ‘s Avonds, and its counterparts for…
There’s a common word combination in Dutch that doesn’t make any sense in English, and therefore might be a bit hard for non-native speakers to wrap their heads around. The…
Hopefully, your Dutch speaking skills are already fairly great when you’re reading this post. But couldn’t they get even greater? Or perhaps, eventually, the greatest of them all? Dutch uses…
The Dutch alphabet, like the English, consists of 26 letters, but one could argue there’s actually 27. This ghost letter is the ij, and it’s a bit of a special…