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…
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…