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Hi everyone, I'm Thomas
hallo dai, ik ben Tomas.
Welcome to the Dutch Whiteboard Lessons.
In this lesson, you'll learn to tell someone your nationality in Dutch.
Let's get started.
Now let's move on to the second section.
Here first up we have
Braziliaans
Brazilian
Braziliaans
Egyptisch
Egyptian
Egyptisch
Spaans
Spanish
Spaans
Zuid Africans
South Africans
Zuid Africans
Canadees
Canadian
Canadees
Turks
Turkish
Turks.
And finally we have
Finns
Finnish
Finns.
Let's look at the dialogue.
When I read,
I want you to pay attention to the nationality word,
find the nationalities
and see how they're used in the dialogue.
Bent u Canadees?
Nee, ik ben niet Canadees.
Ik ben Frans.
Are you Canadian?
No, I'm not Canadian
I'm French.
Bent u Canadees?
Nee, ik ben niet Canadees.
Ik ben Frans.
Now let's look at the sentence pattern.
This pattern will be the structure that all of our dialogues will follow.
For the question
Bent u nationality?
Are you nationality?
And then for the answer
Ik ben nationality.
I'm nationality.
You've probably noticed that most of the adjectives end
in ""S""
or
in ""ees""
or
in ""aans"".
Unfortunately there are no clear rules about which one goes where.
It doesn't quite correspond with the English either, so that's not a handy guide.
Let's have a few examples.
Frans in Dutch is ""Frankrijk"".
Oddly enough
the adjective is Frans.
Canada in Dutch is ""Canada"".
It ends with an A
nevertheless the adjective becomes Canadees.
Italy in Dutch is ""Italië"".
This one ends with an ""E""
nevertheless the adjective becomes ""Italiaans"".
Unfortunately it's a matter of learning and remembering.

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