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[–] [email protected] 125 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Telefoon dood, wat nou?

Notities

What's wrong with tities?!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone mentioned that Hitler Dood thing was actually Afrikaans, not Dutch. But yeah, poor Dutch and their notities...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It would be the same in Dutch.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Came here to say this

[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

Sounds like a southerner's word for a calculator.

"Two times three? I reken that's a five."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

My new speed metal band, but all the songs are actually about math. Our debut album will be Hippasus of Metapontum with the single being Mystic Discourse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

L I V E I N C O N C E R T!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ITSSATURDAYNIGHT

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Proper name for the torture of mathematics condensed into a single program.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

image description : a dutch person standing in a flat field with two windmills in the background. he is holding a dutch flag and has on a tricorner hat and similar era clothing.

dutch text : wanneer je "Gekoloniseerd" Maar het is een nederlandse sub

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As a Dutch person, I can confirm

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I never considered the possibility of my language being funny before I saw the memes. Except for the dutch they speak in Flanders.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago

I wish the Dutch were real 😔

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why does Foto's have an apostrophe?

[–] [email protected] 109 points 10 months ago

I'm not an expert but probably because it's Dutch

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Plural of words ending with a vowel (except "e") uses the apostrophe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Only if it's a short 'e', if the pronunciation is long, you do use an apostrophe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Gotcha, makes sense

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Niet omdat het moet, maar omdat het kan

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

100 hours learning Dutch in duolingo and I still had to go look this up. /smh

Don't let it go, but let it go

Is that about right?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No, it roughly translates to

Not because i have to, but because I can

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

And the intonation matches: doing stuff for the fun of it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fuck duolingo, if I ever see that bird again I am going to jail for animal abuse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They don’t give you the fun local saying we have here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I think my favorite one my Dutch buddy told me about was "Helaas pindakaas." If not that, I also love the insult "droplul."

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

Show me them notities

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

1 month from now...

Expectation:

"Haha notiddies. Man, what a meme that was!"

Reality:

Me not remembering ever seeing this post in my life.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Not the notities!!!!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

geef me een klap papa

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lekker met de instellingen klooien

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I only know that lekker means cool in Afrikaans and that Afrikaans is very close to Dutch. I’m not versed enough to know if this sentence is in Afrikaans or Dutch.

I also know that “the” is “die” in Afrikaans. Because I saw a book called “die bible” on someone’s table and thought it was a way cooler book than it was. With the “de” I’m back to thinking Dutch?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Lekker" actually means tasty in Dutch, however it can be used as "enjoyable" or something in this context, kind of weird actually

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In Afrikaans it’s like calling something “rad” or “cool”. Like “lekker mate” when someone asks how you are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I think rad might be a decent translation in Dutch aswell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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