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A2 Dutch listening practice · Flemish 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.

Ja, ik zei het net ook al van die familie is gewoon een beetje gek.
Hear "een beetje" in 3 other Dutch videos:
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About this clip

A 52s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 186 words per minute, rated 3.9/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • Food & Cooking - Recipes, restaurant reviews, street food, and kitchen vocabulary.
  • Parenting & Family - Family life, raising kids, and parenting advice.

Vocabulary frequency

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

94.6%
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

91.3%
Top 1,000
94.6%
Top 2,000
97.8%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

94.4%
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.

tiramisu
Rare / outside top 5,000
tiramisu
mascarpone
Rare / outside top 5,000
mascarpone
amaretto
Rare / outside top 5,000
amaretto
boodschappenlijstje
Rare / outside top 5,000
shopping list
een beetje gek
a bit crazy or eccentric

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

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