Kinderen voelen zich onveilig door dronken volwassenen bij club
A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners
Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos
What does "een tijdje" mean in Dutch?
It's a Dutch idiom. A Dutch vague duration — "a while" or "for a bit" — using the diminutive -tje on tijd (time).
“Al een tijdje hangen de volwassenen rond bij de club.”
Hear "een tijdje" in 3 other Dutch videos:
Learn more about "een tijdje" in Dutch 
About this clip
A 1:50 video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 200 words per minute, rated 3.9/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
- ▸Culture & Society - Traditions, current events, social issues, and history.
- ▸Sports - Soccer, basketball, tennis, the Olympics, and athletes.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Dutch listening practice listening practice?
89.5%
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
84%
Top 1,000
89.5%
Top 2,000
96.5%
Top 5,000
Spoken Dutch frequency
88.8%
Top 1,000
98.1%
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.
voetballen
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
to play soccer
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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