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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.

“De appeltjes zitten veel beter vast, maar als je de pannenkoek een beetje opteelt, vallen de appeltjes er toch uit.”
Hear "een beetje" in 3 other Dutch videos:
Learn more about "een beetje" in Dutch
About this clip

A 2:05 video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 175 words per minute, rated 3.9/5, medium 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?

84.8%
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

79.2%
Top 1,000
84.8%
Top 2,000
95.2%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

82.8%
Top 1,000
86.8%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.

plakjes
7×
Rare / outside top 5,000
slices
appeltjes
6×
Rare / outside top 5,000
little apples
pannenkoek
4×
Rare / outside top 5,000
pancake
geschilde
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
peeled
omdraaien
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000Common in speech
turn over

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

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