Learn how to count to ten
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| 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 |
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| This lesson is very straightforward as we're going to cover counting zero through ten. |
| Let's jump right in. |
| 0 - nul |
| 1 - een |
| 2 - twee |
| 3 - drie |
| 4 - vier |
| 5 - vijf |
| 6 - zes |
| 7 - zeven |
| 8 - acht |
| 9 - negen |
| 10 - tien |
| The number comes first, followed by the object. |
| To say "two bananas," you will say twee bananen. |
| In this case, bananen is the plural of banaan. |
| In Dutch, as you have seen, nouns have singular and plural forms and they can be masculine, feminine, and neutral. |
| If you want to say "four bananas," you should say vier bananen. |
| Numbers can be very useful, especially when shopping in the Netherlands. |
| Let's imagine you are buying some presents to bring back to your country. |
| For example, imagine you would like to buy two bottles of good Dutch jenever, or "Dutch gin" as it is known in English. |
| "I would like to buy two bottles of jenever." Ik wil graag twee flessen jenever kopen. |
| Let's break down this phrase and see it once again: Ik wil graag twee fles-sen je-ne-ver ko-pen. |
| Ik wil graag twee flessen jenever kopen. |
| Ik wil graag means, "I (in masculine form) would like to." |
| Let's repeat these words. Ik wil graag. |
| Then you have the number twee ("two"), followed by flessen, which is the plural form for the feminine object "bottle" (fles). |
| The word jenever stands for "jenever." |
| The last word in our sentence is kopen. It's a verb and means, "to buy." |
| Let's break it down by syllable: Ko-pen and kopen. |
| What do you say when you want to buy two t-shirts? |
| Ik wil graag twee t-shirts kopen. |
| Let's have a quick look at this sentence. We start the phrase with Ik wil graag, meaning, "I would like to." |
| We follow this with twee t-shirts, which is "two t-shirts," and we end the sentence again with the verb kopen, or "to buy." |
| Let's see the entire sentence now. Ik wil graag twee t-shirts kopen. |
| You're probably wondering how you can figure out the gender of the nouns. It's not that easy and there are many rules for it. Masculine nouns that end with -aar, -er, and -erd for example are: eigenaar is "owner," and koster means, "churchwarden." There are some masculine professions that have the male gender, like piloot for "pilot" and chauffeur for "chauffeur." |
| The nouns that end with -de, -te, -tuur, and -suur are always feminine. |
| For example, liefde, means "love," and diepte means, "dept." A small group of feminine nouns ends with consonants or the letters -is, for instance, crisis is "crisis." |
| Finally the neuter nouns. |
| They are, for example, city names and country names and verbs that start with -be, -ge, and -ont. |
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. |
| "one banana" - een banaan |
| een banaan |
| een banaan |
| "four bananas" - vier bananen |
| vier bananen |
| vier bananen |
| "I would like to buy two bottles of jenever." - Ik wil graag twee flessen jenever kopen. |
| Ik wil graag twee flessen jenever kopen. |
| Ik wil graag twee flessen jenever kopen. |
| "I would like to buy two t-shirts." - Ik wil graag twee t-shirts kopen. |
| Ik wil graag twee t-shirts kopen. |
| Ik wil graag twee t-shirts kopen. |
| 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! |
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