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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."

“Maar dat hoeft het toch niet?”
Hear "toch niet" in 3 other Dutch videos:
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About this clip

A 31s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 161 words per minute, rated 3.6/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • ▸Self-Improvement - Life advice, habits, motivation, and personal growth.

Vocabulary frequency

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

80.3%
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

70.4%
Top 1,000
80.3%
Top 2,000
84.5%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

94.7%
Top 1,000
98.2%
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.

step
7×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(brand) Step — learning method

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

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