When you’re learning a new language, one of the first things you’ll end up doing is figuring out the general word order within a sentence. Dutch uses the same word…
Just like any self-respecting language, Dutch has fairly common words for basic bodily actions like walking, sitting, and standing. Unlike many of those languages, the Dutch like to use them…
When you’ve read a few Dutch texts, you’re bound to have come across the word - or, letter? - u. Contrary to English, this isn’t a crazy informal use of…
Like many languages, Dutch also uses regular verbs, which have a more or less uniform set of conjugations that allows you to use the correct suffixes without learning all possible…
So, you’re traveling or moving to Holland. Or are you? It can be a bit confusing, how the country seems to be sometimes called Holland, and the Netherlands on other…
Welcome to DutchDabbles meets Mythbusters! There’s a word in Dutch that’s widely considered pretty much untranslatable, at least into English. The word is gezellig, and it is indeed a bit…
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…
What if I told you there’s something that’s fairly easy to learn, and that will make you better at a very common part of the Dutch language than a large…
Even though the Dutch are among the tallest people on the planet, we still love our small and cute things. We even have a word type for it, called the…