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Hi everyone, I'm Thomas, hallo daar, ik ben Tomas.
Welcome to the Dutch Whiteboard lesson.
In this lesson you'll learn the very important skill of making small talk about the weather.
Let's get started.
Ok, let's look at the dialogue.
Two people have just gone for a walk.
Het is koud.
Ja, nogal.
It's cold.
It really is.
The word nogal is similar to rather in English.
It's an understatement.
The second person here literally says it's a bit cold but actually means it's very cold.
It really is.
Now let's look at some speaking examples.
Het is heet.
It's hot.
Het is heet.
Het is heet.
Het regent.
It's raining.
Het regent.
Het regent.
Het waait.
It's windy.
Het waait.
Het waait.
Het is zonnig.
It's sunny.
Het is zonnig.
Het is zonnig.
Het is mistig.
It's misty.
Het is mistig.
Het is mistig.
You may have noticed that we sometimes use the verb is but at other times we do not.
We use is when the word that follows is an adjective.
Het is zonnig.
We don't use is when the word that follows is a verb.
Het regent.
Note also het waait.
Here Dutch uses a verb waaien which means the blowing of the wind.
Whereas English uses an adjective.
It's windy.
As you could probably tell from the examples we have two possible sentence patterns.
Het is followed by the type of weather or het followed by the type of weather.
Het is followed by an adjective.
Het is followed by a verb.
Let's look at the vocabulary.
First we have the Dutch word for cold.
Koud.
Koud.
Followed by its opposite the Dutch word for hot which is heet.
Heet.
The Dutch word for rain is regen.
Regen.
Regen.
The Dutch word for wind is almost identical.
Wind.
Wind.
The Dutch word for sun is zon.
Zon.
And finally the Dutch word for mist is identical.
Mist.
Mist.
From these last two words you can see that you can add IG at the end of the word to create
an adjective out of a noun.
Zon becomes zonnig.
But you've probably noticed zonnig has a double N.
Why the double N?
That's to indicate the proper pronunciation.
The double consonant shortens the preceding vowel.
Dutch weather is quite specific.
The vocabulary basically sums up the weather types you will find in the Netherlands.
Mainly it rains a lot.
All year round.
The combination of rain and cold is common especially in winter.
It creates a wet cold that can chill to the bone.
For this kind of wet cold Dutch has a specific word.
Waterkoud.
Literally a watery kind of cold.
Wa-ter-koud.
Wa-ter-koud.

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