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Dutch vocabulary list

All 3892 words from the course, with articles and English translations.

Greetings & politeness

Introducing yourself

Numbers

Days & telling time

Family

De or het?

Food

At the café

In town

Transport

Daily routine

Weather & seasons

In the shop

Clothes & colours

Months & dates

Jobs

Feelings

In class

Animals

Opposites

Asking questions

Countries & languages

Furniture & things at home

Everyday verbs

Fruit & vegetables

Household chores

Phones & computers

Shapes, sizes & materials

A day out

Asking for help

Likes & dislikes

Birthdays

Pets

Breakfast, lunch & dinner

Drinks

Kitchen things

At the bakery

The bathroom

Head & face

Getting dressed

Colours & trying on

Uncles, aunts & cousins

Children & toys

School things & subjects

Having visitors

At the market

Numbers 13 to 1000

In the town centre

Short messages

Run, jump, climb

At the beach

On the farm

TV, radio & the paper

What did you do? (perfect)

Telling a story (simple past)

The body

At the doctor's

Work

Opinions & comparing

Home

Plans & the future

Hobbies

Invitations & plans

Travelling

At the hotel

Groceries

Cooking

On the phone

Describing people

Personality

Het-word patterns

De-word patterns

Common het-words (1)

Common het-words (2)

At the town hall

At the bank

Parcels & post

Emergencies

At the restaurant

Sport

Film & culture

Last weekend

Public transport

Shopping online

Repairs at home

School

Nature

Camping

Relationships

Life events

At the pharmacy

At the dentist

Stress & wellbeing

Healthy eating

Office life

Calling in sick

Time off

Small talk with colleagues

Neighbours

Cycling

At the library

At the hairdresser

Social media

Staying safe online

Music

Books & reading

Moving house

Furnishing a flat

In the garden

Cleaning & maintenance

The car & driving

At the garage

At the airport

The weather forecast

Opening hours & queues

A museum visit

Festivals & events

A city trip

Sports injuries

At the gym

Test results & referrals

Babysitting

Money & saving

Insurance basics

Volunteering

Learning Dutch

The word “er”

Relative clauses

The passive

Te + infinitive

Reflexive verbs

If I were… (zou)

Holidays & traditions

The environment

Job interview

The past perfect

Little words: maar, even, toch, hoor

Linking words

Formal emails

Meetings & discussions

The news

Politics

Numbers & trends

Education

Although & despite

Building words

If I had known…

Verbs with fixed prepositions

Discussing & debating

Making a complaint

Negotiating

Telling a story

Verbs at the end

Someone, nothing, everything

Iets moois: adjectives as nouns

I had to / I could have

Participles as adjectives

Where does niet go?

Nouns with fixed prepositions

Formal vs informal Dutch

Buying a house

Problems with your rental

Neighbourhood & community

The municipality & local politics

The healthcare system

Mental health

Sports clubs & volunteering

Food culture & diets

Travel stories

Travel problems

Art & museums

Films & series

Career development

The performance review

Starting a business

Learning as an adult

Parenting & generations

Technology & privacy

Saving energy at home

Giving a presentation

Participle phrases

Advanced passive

Conditions & purpose

Er in complex sentences

The economy

Science & technology

Diplomatic language at work

Media & misinformation

The housing market

Urban planning

Migration & integration

An ageing population

The labour market

Writing a motivation letter

Negotiating your salary

Resolving conflicts

Banking & personal finance

Consumer rights

The energy transition

Living with water

AI in the workplace

Public health

Social media & democracy

The justice system

Tourism & its effects

Sport & society

Reviewing films & art

Formal phone calls

Choosing a secondary school

Student life

Research & innovation

Start-ups & entrepreneurship

Marketing & branding

The gig economy

Workplace wellbeing & burnout

Remote & hybrid work

Transport & mobility policy

Aviation & sustainable travel

Food waste

Biodiversity & nature conservation

Extreme weather

Local news & journalism

European Union institutions

Dutch history in context

Podcasts & new media

Theatre & performing arts

Customer service (company side)

Writing a formal request

Formal written Dutch

Collocations

Spoken vs written Dutch

Figurative language in the news

Advanced connectors

Hedging & nuance

Rebuttal & persuasion

Academic Dutch

Chairing a meeting

Minutes & reports

Managing a team

Giving & receiving criticism

Writing an opinion piece

Writing a policy memo

Writing an abstract

Referencing & paraphrasing

Persuasive speeches

Interviews & the media

Academic presentations

Toasts, tributes & condolences

Debating ethical questions

Philosophy basics

Reviewing art & literature

Euphemism & political language

Negotiation tactics

Intercultural communication

Escalating a complaint

Contracts & agreements

Strategy & long-term planning

Change management

Project management

Risk & uncertainty

Arguing with data

Reading research critically

Financial news

Writing a funding proposal

Education policy

Climate policy & trade-offs

Technology ethics & AI regulation

Media bias & framing

Cultural heritage & museums

Architecture criticism

Music criticism

Literature & the canon

Crisis communication

Diplomatic refusals

Writing a reference letter

Formal prepositional expressions

Subjunctive & archaic forms

Near-synonyms

Wordplay & ambiguity

Legal & administrative Dutch

Literary style

Proverbs in real use

Regional variation

Humour, irony & understatement

Poetry & rhythm

Classics of Dutch literature

Rhetorical devices

Eulogies & speeches

Translation pitfalls NL ↔ EN

False friends, advanced

Loanwords: French, German, English

Bargoens & Yiddish loans

Spelling debates

Headline Dutch

The language of advertising

Youth language & street slang

Idioms from the sea

Idioms from the Bible & history

Proverbs & anti-proverbs

“Untranslatable” Dutch words

Stacked particles

Sarcasm & cynicism

Implicit meaning & politeness

Dutch through the ages & Afrikaans

The essay

The column & causerie

Satire & parody

Weather & nature writing

Subtitling & compression

Interpreting

Diplomatic language

Ambiguity in contracts & law

Golden Age painting

Music & performance

Food writing

Wine & beer tasting

The Tweede Kamer

Sports commentary

Gender in language

Names & naming customs

Suriname & Surinamese Dutch

Dutch in the Caribbean

Sound words & sound symbolism

Neologisms & new coinages