Since there's quite a lot of Dutch talking in other topics lately *cough*, I thought it would be a nice idea to start a Dutch topic for Dutch speaking persons, and persons trying to learn our beautiful language! Have you got a question about the language, or are you just trying to learn it for a bit, this is the right place! Now, to get this topic started: Do you know any Dutch sentences/words? :) Tell tell!

Voor de Nederlandssprekenden: hier hoef je dus even ni in het Engels te kletsen, maar mag het ook gewoon in het Nederlands. Goed idee of ni? :unsure:

okay, I'm trying to figure out what you said...something about speaking dutch...even though you speak english in the netherlands...um...maybe?

of course you know I want to learn...teach me! :D

interested!
I always have zest on languages. Dutch gonna be the forth language I learn, so excited!!!
I donnu any Dutch words :blush: , teach me! ^_^

got the idea of me? "is it? ok, I cheated" :P

...*falls over* Wheeeee Dutch!! I can just tell this is going to be full of posts from you, Veer and Carole (ahahahah rival countries). Oh and I can imagine what Amanda would say once she got back... ;)

That has 20 letters. WTF?!?!?!

LOL Trace. I don't think "Nederlandssprekenden" is a correct word though, it means "those who speak dutch", I guess it's something like "Nederlands sprekenden" of "Nederlands-sprekenden" or so. But then again I'm not sure. I'm confused by my own mother tongue!
//EDIT// It is a correct word on Office Word though. Hoeray for Dutch words with 20 letters! (aka "Hoera voor Nederlandse woorden met 20 letters!") The online Van Dale dictionnary couldnt find it though.

Some basic grammar:

to be - zijn :)

I am - ik ben
you are - jij/je bent
he is - hij is
she is - zij/ze is
we are - wij/we zijn
you are - jullie zijn
they are - zij/ze zijn

e.g. "jullie zijn idioot " :lol:
JK, "jullie zijn fantastisch"

Aah this is so funny! I didn't know that so many people want to learn dutch! Het is gaaf ^_^ !! I like to help everyone who wants to learn dutch :lol: Kiss

Lol no, I said something like.. 'For the Dutch speaking persons, no need to talk in English here, it's allowed to talk Dutch. Good idea or not?'

Oh wow, you speak 3 languages? Which? About your translation, not entirely right, I just gave the right one ^

Hahaha nice start Carole! Yes, Nederlandssprekenden is correct, leuk woord he?

Hoii Jc's Guapetona (wat is je naam? :)), welcome!!

what is the particularity of dutch kiss ??? :P :P

Yay!! I want to learn Shaar, but you know the current extent of my Dutch language....

*cough* Anyone want a paraplu?? :P

ik ben fantastisch :P (well, out of a choice between that world or idioot, what did you expect me to pick!!)

I think y'all might need to post some sort of pronunciation guide as well.

(I would've picked something else for you Sam :P JK!!! Jij/je [??? which one?] bent fantastisch :P)

Christian, well I wish I spoken 3 langus, in fact I only learned 3 ones: English as my major, French as a must for English majors, and Chinese which is the hardest one although as my mother langue ;)
I think what's important to learn a language is to have the opportunity to use it, like you :)

um... it seems that there are many ijs in Dutch, what's the function of them, are they suffix or sth? :huh:

The feeling of learning things is just fabulous after such a long vocation! :D

Thank you all that teach! :flower:

You can choose, it's both correct ;)

In flandres we say "gij/ge" instead of "jij/je", which is so much better sounding than jij/je, IMO B) "u" is the formel form of jij/je, but in the Netherlands, gij/ge is even more formel than "u", while over here it's like totally informel.

and I was thinking about phonetics too LOL. I can spell phoneticly, but you can't type all the weird characters here :rolleyes:

An alternative method...
Ik as in 'stick'
ben as in 'Big Ben'
Jij = y-è-y
je = y + the "e" as in un unstressed 'the'
gij/ge: most of you can't pronounce that sound so I wont even try lol
bent = same as the english 'bent'
hij = h-è-y
zij = z-è-y
ze = z + "e" as in an unstressed 'the'
is = is (lol is is is)
wij = w-è-y
we = w + 'e' as in an unstressed 'the'
zijn = z-è-y-n
jullie = y + 'u' is in the french 'urgent' + lee
fantastisch = fantastis with short clear french a's

* the blue y's mean you dont really pronounce them, at least we dont in flandres, but 'officially' i think you are supposed to...
In the netherlands, they do, I think.

Thanks Carole! I think that I might just help me! :D

1 = Één
2 = Twee
3 = Drie
4 = Vier
5 = Vijf
6 = Zes
7 = Zeven
8 = Acht
9 = Negen
10 = Tien

Hello = Hallo
Bye = Doei
How are you? = Hoe is het?

so much information! *looking for paper and pencil...* :huh:

It's not that hard to remember the words :P
you won't need pencil and paper :P
no i think you still need it. i'm learning someone dutch as well and she needs a pencil and paper too. :P
so keep writhing :D

whahahah bye = doei :P whahahahaha that's more spoken language :P lolll

Some from me

I love JCF = Ik hou van JCF
*on the reply of, How Are You Doing* I'm good = Het gaat goed.

xxx Anne

I'd just say something like "Goed" or "Alles in orde" or "Alles OK" or something if someone asked me "Hoe gaat het?" :)

Dat kan ook ;) :P!

Hmmm. So now we have the numbers, but how do you say "I am .... years old"

Is it like in English where then it would be "Ik ben acht" etc etc... or is it like french and spanish when you say "I have....years"???

Dank u voor uw hulp!!

I will go to the most wonderful tournament of the year, the Rotterdam open = Ik ga naar het allerleukste toernooi van het jaar, de Rotterdam Open.

Very important that you can say that :P

Oh wow Sam, lol! The first one is correct, 'ik ben acht (jaar)' ('I am eight (years)'). It's 'ik ben zeventien (jaar)' in your case though!

Oh god. So many Dutch speaking people. So much pronunciation. Erhghhhh...

Oh Shaar/Carole/Anne/Veer/Everyone else whose name I don't know, what's fourteen? Hehehe.

fourteen = veertien

Tracey, personally I think "Ik ben een baby" is more suitable in your situation ;) Or "Ik ben de baby van het forum" or something :rolleyes:

And only paper and pencil is far from enough now, I need a dictionary! gonna buy one someday... :rolleyes:

Seems tough. :|

I know quite a lot of German, but not Dutch.
I only know 'ik ben' and .. that's it. Lol.

Fun topic though. :D

How would I say...Hallo, Ik ben Lindsay Peters, Ik ben vijftien jaar, and Ik live in the USA.

A EngUtch sentence! was my Dutch correct?

Lol Shaar! I know, but you hadn't written 17 down...:P

Wow very good :)
just change the last part into "en ik woon in de VSA"

Ok, so:

Hallo, Ik ben Samantha Walsh, ik ben zeventien jaar, en ik voon in Spanje.

Is that right??!!!

je woont, je 'voont' niet :)

but further it's really good

Hallo, Ik ben Lindsay Peters, Ik ben vijftien jaar, en Ik woon in de USA?

:D This is fun! I'm learning more now! Though it's probably not the best to go about it, I'd rather learn how to read and write in Dutch first then how to pronounce it! :P

LOL! ....Shushhhhhhhhhh. That's mean :P Leave the "baby" alone!

Australia is Australië yeah? Hmmmm...

More lessons.. :)

There are two words meaning 'the' in Dutch: 'de' and 'het'. It might be interesting to know that masculine and feminine words have 'de' and neuter(?) words have 'het', but that doesn't always help you that much, because in most cases there's no way of telling whether a word is masculine, feminine or neuter. Only for people and animals it is clear, like:
- de man (- the man)
- de vrouw (- the women)
- het kind (- the child)

There's only one word for 'a' or 'an': 'een'. For example:
- een man (- a man)
- een dier (- an animal)

This and that in Dutch translate as follows:
- For 'de' words this/these is 'deze' and that/those is 'die'
- For 'het' words this/these is 'dit' and that/those is 'dat'

Further, 'over here' is 'hier', and 'over there' is 'daar'.

Question words can be confusing: the Dutch word hoe, sounds like the English 'who', but means 'how, while the Dutch word wie, meaning 'who', sounds like the English 'we', which is 'wij' in Dutch and that sounds more or less like 'why', but that's 'waarom' in Dutch. Quite confusing, eh?

Some question words:
who = wie
what = wat
where = waar
why = waarom
how = hoe

Enough for today! :P

Um.... Um.... WHAT? I'm so confused. Man this is confusing. Why is Dutch so hard? :P

like a trick question :o ...but interesting!
^_^

:P proofreading...

daar is een dier en het kind hou dit

Ik woon niet in de VSA, en je woont niet in de China.


oh, Ik hou de Dutch! :lol:

LOL Daphne! Almost correct, nice try though!

Daar is een dier en het kind hou dit (what are you trying to say? :) doesn't make sense here..)

Ik woon niet in de VSA (I guess that's Belgian? In NL, we just say VS), en je woont niet in de (no need for de) China.

Goed gedaan! (Well done)

Thank you Christian! Aren't you a sooo qualified teacher? ^_^

I thought hou dit ment love it umm...how to say "love"? :)

*keep doing my notes for Dutch* ^_^