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| INTRODUCTION |
| Peter: Goedendag! Mijn naam is Peter [Greeting in 101 language] |
| Judith: Judith here! Absolute Beginner Season 1 , Lesson 15 - Imperative |
| Judith: Hello, and welcome to DutchPOD101.com, the fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Dutch! |
| Peter: I'm Peter, and thanks again for being here with us for this Absolute Beginner S1 lesson. |
| Judith: In this lesson you'll will learn how to give commands in Dutch. |
| Peter: This conversation takes place in the morning at a Dutch home. |
| Judith: The conversation is between Marijke, her husband Bert and their daughter Loes. |
| Peter: The speakers are family, therefore they will be speaking informal Dutch. |
| Judith: Let’s listen to the conversation. |
Lesson conversation |
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| M: Wakker worden! Sta op! |
| J: Ik kom zo. |
| M: Nee, kom nu! |
| M: Eten jullie snel je ontbijt en Bert, breng hem naar school! |
| B: Haal je boeken, Jeroen! We gaan. |
| ... |
| L: Goedemorgen. Waar is mijn broer? |
| M: Op school. Ga zitten en eet je ontbijt! Ga even zitten! |
| L: Geef de melk eens. |
| M: Pak even een kopje! Doe hagelslag op je brood! |
| L: Schreeuw niet zo! |
| M: Haal je boeken en ga naar school! |
| L: Dag! |
| M: (pffff) Ik ben toe aan koffie. |
| English Host: Let’s hear the conversation one time slowly. |
| M: Wakker worden! Sta op! |
| J: Ik kom zo. |
| M: Nee, kom nu! |
| M: Eten jullie snel je ontbijt en Bert, breng hem naar school! |
| B: Haal je boeken, Jeroen! We gaan. |
| ... |
| L: Goedemorgen. Waar is mijn broer? |
| M: Op school. Ga zitten en eet je ontbijt! Ga even zitten! |
| L: Geef de melk eens. |
| M: Pak even een kopje! Doe hagelslag op je brood! |
| L: Schreeuw niet zo! |
| M: Haal je boeken en ga naar school! |
| L: Dag! |
| M: (pffff) Ik ben toe aan koffie. |
| English Host: Now let’s hear it with the English translation. |
| M: Wakker worden! Sta op! |
| Judith: Wake up! Get up! |
| J: Ik kom zo. |
| Judith: I’ll come soon. |
| M: Nee, kom nu! |
| Judith: No, come now! |
| M: Eten jullie snel je ontbijt en Bert, breng hem naar school! |
| Judith: Eat your breakfast quickly and Bert, take him to school! |
| B: Haal je boeken, Jeroen! We gaan. |
| Judith: Fetch your books, Jeroen! Let’s go. |
| ... |
| Judith… |
| L: Goedemorgen. Waar is mijn broer? |
| Judith: Good morning. Where is my brother? |
| M: Op school. Ga zitten en eet je ontbijt! Ga even zitten! |
| Judith: At school. Sit down and eat your breakfast! Sit down real quick! |
| L: Geef de melk eens. |
| Judith: Give me the milk. |
| M: Pak even een kopje! Doe hagelslag op je brood! |
| Judith: Just get a cup! Put [do] chocolate sprinkles on your bread! |
| L: Schreeuw niet zo! |
| Judith: Don’t shout like that! |
| M: Haal je boeken en ga naar school! |
| Judith: Fetch your books and go to school! |
| L: Dag! |
| Judith: Bye! |
| M: (pffff) Ik ben toe aan koffie. |
| Judith: (pffff) I feel like coffee. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Judith: Okay what is a Dutch breakfast like, do they even eat breakfast? |
| Peter: Yes , a lot! Nine out of ten Dutch people eat breakfast and the situation is mostly eat at home at the breakfast table. |
| Judith: And what do they eat? |
| Peter: Well the Dutch prefer to eat brown bread with of course cheese or sweet toppings during the week. On the weekends they might eat more pastries and croissants. |
| Judith: Apart from sweet toppings and cheese, on the weekends there are also more meats and salads on the table. |
| Peter: During the week, they generally take half an hour for their breakfast, but on the weekends it can double. |
| Judith: Is there anything ..a typical Dutch breakfast that you wouldn’t recognize? |
| Peter: Well, a typical Dutch breakfast contains, besides bread or marmalade, butter, milk, tea and coffee, at of some things that we Americans don’t recognize. One of these products is very famous, it’s called ‘hagelslag’. Hagelslag are a kind of chocolate sprinkles, and the Dutch..those crazy Dutch like to put them on a slice of bread. You should always use butter, or otherwise the hagelslag will go everywhere but your mouth when you take a bite. |
| Judith: I think most people I know use these sprinkles to decorate cakes, but the Dutch put it on their bread?. |
| Peter: They do! The Dutch eat sprinkles “hagelslag” on their bread with butter. But there are more typical Dutch product eaten for breakfast. One of them is called ‘ontbijtkoek’. |
| Judith: Ontbijt...koek? That is…”breakfast cake”. |
| Peter: Yeah, “ontbijtkoek” is pretty spicy as breakfast cake actually. The colour is like brown and it’s spiced with cinnamon, ginger and with cloves. And it tastes sweet and spicy and is ontbijtkoek usually topped with butter. |
| VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Judith: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. |
| The first word we shall see is: |
| Peter: wakker worden [natural native speed] |
| Judith: wake up |
| Peter: wak-ker wor-den [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Peter: wakker worden [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: wakker [natural native speed] |
| Judith: awake |
| Peter: wak-ker [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Peter: wakker [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: worden [natural native speed] |
| Judith: to become |
| Peter: wor-den [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Peter: worden [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: snel [natural native speed] |
| Judith: quick, fast |
| Peter: snel [slowly] |
| Peter: snel [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: ontbijt [natural native speed] |
| Judith: breakfast |
| Peter: ontbijt [slowly] |
| Peter: ontbijt [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: ontbijten [natural native speed] |
| Judith: to have breakfast |
| Peter: ont-bijt-en [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Peter: ontbijten [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: brengen [natural native speed] |
| Judith: to bring, take somewhere |
| Peter: bren-gen [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Peter: brengen [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: school [natural native speed] |
| Judith: school |
| Peter: school [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Peter: school [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: halen [natural native speed] |
| Judith: to fetch, get |
| Peter: ha-len [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Peter: halen [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: melk [natural native speed] |
| Judith: milk |
| Peter: melk [slowly] |
| Peter: melk [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: hagelslag [natural native speed] |
| Judith: chocolate sprinkles |
| Peter: ha-gel-slag [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Peter: hagelslag [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: brood [natural native speed] |
| Judith: bread |
| Peter: brood [slowly] |
| Peter: brood [natural native speed] |
| Next: |
| Peter: schreeuwen [natural native speed] |
| Judith: to shout, scream |
| Peter: schreeuw-en [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Peter: schreeuwen [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Judith: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| Peter: The first word/phrase we’ll look at is...."Wakker worden". This is an expression meaning "to wake up". The expression consists of "wakker" (awake) and "worden" (to become), so you're literally saying "become awake", but in Dutch, it's the most natural way to tell someone to wake up. "Sta op" is literally "stand up", but it can also mean "to get up". The mother in this dialogue is giving a lot of commands, but sometimes she uses the words ‘even’ and ‘eens’. The particle ‘eens’ gives the imperative a friendlier tone. |
| Judith: The participle ‘even’ has a similar meaning; it makes the imperative more casual. It shows that it should take the other person no effort or time to carry out the command. Peter: We could compare it to saying "real quick", as in "Can you take out the trash real quick?" |
Lesson focus |
| Judith: The focus of this lesson is the imperative. When we give orders or commands, we use the imperative, which is just the stem of the verb. The same forms are used to talk to one person or to a group of people. Can you give an example of the Dutch imperative? |
| Peter: Of course! “Ga zitten!” (sit down, to one person) When you say “sit down” to a group it’s also “ga zitten!” |
| Judith:We can also add a subject, then it's "gaan" when talking to several people. |
| Peter: 1Ga jij even zitten! (can you sit down) |
| 2 Gaan jullie even zitten! (can you (plural) sit down) |
| Judith: When talking formally to someone, you should use the ‘u’ form. |
| Peter: For the imperative, we swap the "u" and the verb here. Normally, it's "u gaat", but the command is "gaat u". |
| 1 Gaat u zitten! (sit down, sir or ma'am) |
| Peter: If on the other hand you want to be very stern, like a father scolding a child or like a policeman or teacher, use just the infinitive, which is the dictionary form of a word. |
| 1 Doorlopen! (move on!) |
| 2 Opletten! (pay attention!) |
Outro |
| Judith: That just about does it for today. |
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| Judith: We hope you enjoyed this lesson. See you next time! |
| Peter: Doei!!!!! |
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