Spelling & grammar

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,…

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 or to a period…

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…

When you’re learning Dutch on a fairly advanced level, you may have come across a term that both looks weird and can be somewhat incomprehensible. This term is tussen-n, and…

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…

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…

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…

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…