It’s hard to think of a language that doesn’t have filler words, and Dutch surely has tons of them. We call them stopwoorden, and they’re mostly used in speech, but…
When you make a list of favorite words to use by Dutchies, gewoon will definitely be on it. In its most common use, it’s an important word, but it’s also…
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…
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…