Dutch Nouns

Welcome to the third Dutch lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Dutch to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes aardappelen

tomatoes tomaten

onions uien

carrots wortel

fruits fruit

apples appel

bananas banaan

oranges sinaasappels

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Dutch
do you have milk? [verb + noun] heb je melk?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] ik heb melk en koffie
he has three apples [number + plural noun] hij heeft drie appels
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] ze heeft maar een appel
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] we leven in een klein huis
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] ik hou van ons ontbijt

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread brood

milk melk

butter boter

cheese kaas

coffee koffie

sandwich boterham

meat vlees

chicken kip

fish vis

breakfast ontbijt

lunch lunch/middageten

dinner diner/avondeten

Conversation in Dutch

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Dutch
Do you speak (English/ Dutch)? spreekt u (engels/ nederlands)?
Just a little een (klein) beetje
I like Dutch ik vind nederlands leuk
Can I practice with you? kan ik met u oefenen? (polite form)
How old are you? hoe oud ben je?
I'm thirty three years old ik ben drieëndertig jaar oud
It was nice talking to you leuk met u gesproken te hebben!

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