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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.

Let een beetje op je woorden.
Hear "een beetje" in 3 other Dutch videos:
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About this clip

A 39s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 216 words per minute, rated 3.9/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • Transportation - Cars, trains, planes, and getting around.
  • Culture & Society - Traditions, current events, social issues, and history.

Vocabulary frequency

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

92%
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

88.5%
Top 1,000
92%
Top 2,000
96.5%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

93.5%
Top 1,000
100%
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.

respectloos
Rare / outside top 5,000
disrespectful
schoonhouden
Rare / outside top 5,000
keep clean
conducteur
Rare / outside top 5,000
conductor
spugen
Rare / outside top 5,000
to spit
preek
Rare / outside top 5,000
sermon
wat je niet laten kunt
something you can't help doing

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

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