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A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners

Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos

What does "toch niet" mean in Dutch?

It's a Dutch discourse marker. A Dutch negative tag — "you're not... are you?" — using toch to flag soft concern about an expected "no."

Ja, maar dat is toch niet eerlijk?
Hear "toch niet" in 3 other Dutch videos:
Learn more about "toch niet" in Dutch
About this clip

A 37s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 182 words per minute, rated 3.6/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

Vocabulary frequency

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

89%
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

81.7%
Top 1,000
89%
Top 2,000
98.8%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

88.9%
Top 1,000
96.3%
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.

streekje
Rare / outside top 5,000
small stripe

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

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