Learn how to say where you're from
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| Hi everyone, I'm Thomas, hallo daar, ik ben Thomas. |
| Welcome to the Dutch Whiteboard Lessons. |
| In this lesson, you'll learn to say where you're from in Dutch. |
| Let's get started. |
| Let's look at the dialogue. |
| When I read, I want you to pay attention to the structure. |
| See how it's used in the dialogue to express your origin. |
| Waar kom je vandaan? |
| Where are you from? |
| Ik kom uit Assen. |
| I'm from Assen. |
| Now let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern will be the structure that all our examples will follow. |
| Ik kom uit place. |
| In English, I'm from place. |
| Okay, let's look at the vocabulary. |
| This time it's a short list because the expression is always the same. |
| Ik, I. |
| Next up, kom, come, kom, kom, kom. |
| Uit, from, uit, uit, uit. |
| And finally, vandaan, which also means from, vandaan, vandaan, vandaan. |
| Now let's look at some speaking examples. |
| Ik kom uit Rotterdam. |
| I'm from Rotterdam. |
| Ik kom uit Rotterdam. |
| Next up we have, ik kom uit Limburg. |
| I'm from Limburg. |
| Ik kom uit Limburg. |
| Ik kom uit Nederland. |
| I'm from the Netherlands. |
| Ik kom uit Nederland. |
| You will notice from the vocabulary that there are two Dutch words for from. |
| One of them is uit and the other one is vandaan. |
| What's the difference? |
| Well, in this case, vandaan is only used in combination with the word waar or where, meaning where from. |
| In this case, where are you from? |
| Waar kom je vandaan? |
| Since vandaan is used in combination with waar, it follows then that it's also used in combination with there, daar, and hier, hier. |
| Waar vandaan? |
| Daar vandaan. |
| Hier vandaan. |
| Hier vandaan. |
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