A2 · Lesson 58 · Work & opinions

Work

Jobs, colleagues — and why: sentences with omdat.

Grammar

Subordinate clauses

Dutch has two words for “because”: omdat and want. They use different word order.
With omdat / dat / als all verbs go to the end: …omdat ik in Utrecht woon.
Want (because) keeps normal word order: …want ik woon in Utrecht.

Vocabulary

12 new words

het werk
work
de baan
job
de collega
colleague
het kantoor
office
de vergadering
meeting
de baas
boss
het salaris
salary
solliciteren
to apply for a job
verdienen
to earn
thuiswerken
to work from home
omdat
because (verb to end)
want
because (normal order)

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