Now Playing: Lesson Audio
Get a breakdown of the dialogue and translations instantly with the Premium line-by-line Audio. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.
Get this lesson’s key vocab, their translations and pronunciations. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.
Unlock Lesson Notes and Transcripts for every single lesson. Sign Up for a Free Lifetime Account and Get 7 Days of Premium Access.
| INTRODUCTION |
| Hallo! Hello and welcome to Dutch Survival Phrases brought to you by DutchPod101.com, this course is designed to equip you with the language skills and knowledge to enable you to get the most out of your visit to the Netherlands. You will be surprised at how far a little Dutch will go. |
| Now, before we jump in, remember to stop by DutchPod101.com and there, you will find the accompanying PDF and additional info in the post. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. |
Lesson focus |
|---|
| In today's lesson, we'll cover phrases used for apologizing. Now, as you haven't quite mastered Dutch, it's probably very prudent to go over the phrases for apologizing as they might come in handy. |
| We'll start with, "I'm sorry," which in Dutch is Het spijt me. |
| Let's break it down by syllable: Het spijt me. |
| We can use Het spijt me both in formal and informal situations. |
| We use Het spijt me when we have said or done something offensive, wrong, or embarrassing. |
| If you want to be short and informal you can just say sorry. |
| We have mentioned in our previous lessons that Pardon means, "Excuse me." |
| Use this when you are trying to work your way through a crowd at the subway station, when you are trying to get someone's attention in a store, or when you ask for directions. |
| Now, what if someone says, Het spijt me to you after they've done something wrong and you want to respond, "No problem," or "That's okay." |
| In this case, the proper response should be Geen probleem, which literally means, "Nothing happened." |
| Geen probleem. |
| Let's break it down by syllable: Geen pro-bleem. |
| Now let's say the whole phrase one more time: Geen probleem. |
| Another useful phrase in such situations would be Niets aan de hand, which in English means, "No harm done." |
| Niets aan de hand. |
| Let's break this phrase down: Niets aan de hand. |
| The first word, niets, means "nothing." |
| Niets. |
| The following three components, aan de hand, are an expression and together they mean "going on." |
| Aan de hand. |
| Now let's repeat this phrase: Niets aan de hand. |
Outro |
| Okay, to close out this lesson, we'd like you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you're responsible for saying it aloud. You have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so good luck, that also means “good luck” in Dutch. |
| "I'm sorry./Excuse me." - Het spijt me. |
| Het spijt me. |
| Het spijt me. |
| "No problem." - Geen probleem. |
| Geen probleem. |
| Geen probleem. |
| "No harm done." - Niets aan de hand. |
| Niets aan de hand. |
| Niets aan de hand. |
| All right, that's going to do it for today. Remember to stop by DutchPod101.com and pick up the accompanying PDF and additional info in the post. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. Tot ziens! |
Comments
Hide