Is de 5 seconden regel echt waar?
A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners
Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos
What does "even wachten" mean in Dutch?
It's a Dutch even + verb construction. A Dutch "just hold on" — combining even (briefly) with wachten (wait) for a soft pause request.
“Nee, wat moet jij nog even wachten?”
Hear "even wachten" in 3 other Dutch videos:
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About this clip
A 2:37 video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 206 words per minute, rated 3.9/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Science - Discoveries, experiments, and how the world works.
- ▸Health & Wellness - Fitness, mental health, nutrition, sleep, and self-care.
- ▸Food & Cooking - Recipes, restaurant reviews, street food, and kitchen vocabulary.
- ▸Daily Life - Everyday routines, home life, and real-world situations.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Dutch listening practice listening practice?
93.2%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Dutch words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Dutch.
General Dutch frequency
86.2%
Top 1,000
93.2%
Top 2,000
97.9%
Top 5,000
Spoken Dutch frequency
93.9%
Top 1,000
98.8%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-Dutch data than in general usage, so it may feel closer to everyday conversation.
Words above this video’s level
Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.
watermeloen
4×
Rare / outside top 5,000
watermelon
nooi
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
never (archaic)
opeten
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000Common in speech
eat up
spekje
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
small piece of bacon
spekjes
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
small pieces of bacon
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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