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LESSONNOTES

AbsoluteBeginnerS1#2

WhereintheNetherlandsDoYou

Live?

CONTENTS

2 Dutch

2 English3 Vocabulary

3 Sample Sentences

5 Vocabulary Phrase Usage

5 Grammar

5 Cultural Insight

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DUTCH

1. A: Woon je weer in Nederland?

2. M: Ja, ik woon weer hier. Ik woon weer in Amsterdam.

3. A: In het centrum?

4. M: Ja, en waar woon jij?

5. A: Ik woon ook in Amsterdam.

6. M: Werk jij in het centrum?

7. A: Ja, ik werk hier. Werk jij ook in het centrum?

8. M: Nee, ik werk thuis.

ENGLISH

1. A: Are you living in the Netherlands again?

2. M: Yes, Im living here again. Im living in Amsterdam again.

3. A: In the center?

4. M: Yes, and where do you live?

5. A: I also live in Amsterdam.

6. M: Do you work in the center?

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7. A: Yes, I work here. Do you also work in the center?

8. M: No, I work at home.

VOCABULARY

Dutc h English C lass Ge nde r

je you pronoun

Nederland the Netherlands noun

wonen live verb

hier here pronoun

ik I pronoun

weer again adverb

in in preposition

de the article

het the article

centrum center noun neuter

waar where adverb

jij you (stressed) pronoun

werken work verb

nee no

huis house noun neutral

thuis at home adverb

SAMPLE SENTENCES

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Wat wil je?

"What do you want?"

Ik kom uit Nederland.

"I'm from the Netherlands."

Ik woon in een appartement in de stad.

"I live in an apartment in the city."

Dat zou hier in deze lade moeten zijn.

"That should be here in this drawer."

Ik heet Jacob.

"My name is Jacob."

Ik kom uit de Verenigde Staten.

"I'm from the United States."

Ik moet vanavond naar huis.

"I have to go home tonight."

Hier gaan we weer!

"Here we go again!"

In de tuin.

"In the garden."

Ik woon in New York.

"I live in New York."

Ik kom uit Nederland.

"I'm from the Netherlands."

Er heeft zich op het raam ijs gevormd.

"Ice has formed on the window."

Tokyo heeft een levendig stadcentrum.

"Tokyo has a lively city center."

Waar is het postkantoor?

"Where is the post office?"

Jij bent lang!

"You are tall!"

Sommige mensen werken 7 dagen per

week.

"Some people work seven days a week."

De werknemers werken op het kantoor.

"The employees work at the office."

Nee, ik hou niet van klassieke muziek.

"No, I don't like classical music."

Waar is het huis?

"Where is the house?"

Het is een huis.

"It's a house."

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Ik heb het thuis geleerd.

"I learned it at home."

VOCABULARY PHRASE USAGE

1. There are two words for "the" in Dutch: deand het. Deis used for almost all nouns and also

for the plurals, like dekinderen. Hetis only used for neuter nouns like hetcentrum.

2. In the dialogue, you saw bothjeand jijfor "you". They both mean basically the same thing,

but when you want to give it a bit more emphasis, you would usejij. In a normal question like

"Do you live in the Netherlands?" (WoonjeweerinNederland?) you would use je. But then if

you answer the question and want to follow up with "and you?", you're putting stress on the

"you", so then you'd use jij: enjij?.

GRAMMAR

Thefocusofthislessonisconjugatingregularverbs,part1.

IkwoonookinAmsterdam.

"IalsoliveinAmsterdam."

Most Dutch verbs end in -en or -n. In order to conjugate a regular verb in Dutch, you need to

remove the -en from the verb. This will give you the verb stem.

For example, we have the verb werken(to work). When you take away the -en, you get werk.

Werkis the stem of the verb and it is also used when talking about yourself, using the word ik

(I). Ikwerkis "I work". To say "you work", you have to add a -t, so you getjijwerkt. Jijwerktis

"you work".

We can do the same with wonen. Take off the -en and you get won, the stem. In this case, we

have to spell it woonwith a double O in order to maintain the long vowel -- we'll cover this in

more detail in lesson 7. So the first person is ikwoon(I live) and the 2nd person is jijwoont

(you live).

Note that in questions, the final -tdisappears from the jij-form. This makes questions faster to

pronounce.

Waarwoonjij?(Where do you live?)

Waarwerkjij?(Where do you work?)

CULTURAL INSIGHT

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DutchPopulation

The Netherlands is the most densely populated country in the European Union. Amsterdam is

the capital city. More than 40% of the total population lives in the Randstad. The Randstad is

a huge urban area consisting of the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht.

The Randstad is a melting pot of many different cultures from all over the world. In fact, the

most culturally diverse cities are located in the Randstad. As of January 2011, the largestgroups were from Morocco, Turkey, and Great Britain. (The United States came in 6th place.)

The Dutch define citizenship status using the terms Autochtonen, which are people whose

parents were both born in the Netherlands and Allochtonen, which are people with at least

one parent who wasnt born in the Netherlands.