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A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners

Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos

What does "hoezo" mean in Dutch?

It's a Dutch discourse marker. A Dutch question word meaning "how come?" or "what do you mean?" — the all-purpose challenge to a claim.

“Hoezo dan?”
Hear "hoezo" in 3 other Dutch videos:
Learn more about "hoezo" in Dutch
About this clip

A 59s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 117 words per minute, rated 2.8/5, easy listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • ▸Food & Cooking - Recipes, restaurant reviews, street food, and kitchen vocabulary.
  • ▸Culture & Society - Traditions, current events, social issues, and history.
  • ▸Sports - Soccer, basketball, tennis, the Olympics, and athletes.

Vocabulary frequency

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

88.6%
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

70%
Top 1,000
88.6%
Top 2,000
97.1%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

73.8%
Top 1,000
78.5%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
📘 More formal vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in general Dutch frequency data than in subtitle-based spoken-language data, so it may feel a bit more formal or written.

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

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