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A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners

Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos

What does "een beetje" mean in Dutch?

It's a Dutch idiom. A Dutch hedge — "a little" or "a bit" — both literal quantifier and pragmatic softener.

Dan doen we een beetje chips op de bodem. Oh.
Hear "een beetje" in 3 other Dutch videos:
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About this clip

A 48s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 205 words per minute, rated 3.6/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • Food & Cooking - Recipes, restaurant reviews, street food, and kitchen vocabulary.

Vocabulary frequency

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

82%
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

82%
Top 1,000
82%
Top 2,000
91%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

85.9%
Top 1,000
89.1%
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.

pretzels
Rare / outside top 5,000
marshmallows
Rare / outside top 5,000
oreo
Rare / outside top 5,000
cookie brand
pannetje
Rare / outside top 5,000
small pot or pan

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

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