“Nou”, the partially meaningless but utterly useful Dutch word
If you’ve read some of the other DutchDabbles articles, you may have come across mentions of the word nou. I’ve mentioned it enough to merit doing an entire post about…
If you’ve read some of the other DutchDabbles articles, you may have come across mentions of the word nou. I’ve mentioned it enough to merit doing an entire post about…
If you’ve ever been around a Dutch person on your birthday, you may have found yourself being congratulated with it. This sounds really weird to English speakers, and the Dutch…
If you live in a Dutch speaking country, or if you regularly speak Dutch with a native speaker, you’ve undoubtedly encountered the word hè. Hè is a very versatile word…
Let’s talk about a Dutch word that’s pretty much exclusively used in a negative manner, but is still highly usable in all kinds of situations, which means you’ll hear it…
If you’ve been around native Dutch speakers for a while, or at least communicate with them on a regular basis, you may at some point have received something called “groeten”…
I’m going to talk about a word that will definitely have raised the eyebrows of non-native speakers of Dutch when they heard it for the first time, and may very…
What if I told you there’s a word that’s so versatile it can be used in almost every situation imaginable, from food to body parts and from sarcasm to slang?…