Kinderen en het zoeken naar een bijbaantje

WhatsAppGmailTelegramEmail

A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners

Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos

What does "hoezo" mean in Dutch?

It's a Dutch discourse marker. A Dutch question word meaning "how come?" or "what do you mean?" — the all-purpose challenge to a claim.

Hoezo dat nou weer niet?
Hear "hoezo" in 3 other Dutch videos:
Learn more about "hoezo" in Dutch
About this clip

A 34s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 231 words per minute, rated 3.3/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • Work & Career - Jobs, interviews, workplace culture, and money.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Dutch listening practice listening practice?

90.5%
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

86.9%
Top 1,000
90.5%
Top 2,000
96.4%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

91.4%
Top 1,000
93.8%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.

bijbaantje
Rare / outside top 5,000
part-time job
solliciteren
Rare / outside top 5,000
to apply (for a job)
doei
Rare / outside top 5,000Common in speech
bye

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

Explore Dutch Comprehensible Input on Reelang

Open Dutch hub