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…
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…
In many languages, you can talk about multiple instances of the same object at once by using the plural form. Dutch is no different, and while it’s not as easy…
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…
Fun fact: did you know we have a language phenomenon in Dutch called the English disease? It has everything to do with the way we use compound words. This is…
Dutch can be a slightly annoying language to master, and one of the first times you’ll notice that’s the case is when you start putting articles in front of nouns.…