Regenuitdrukken leren: miezert tot pijpenstelen
A2 Dutch listening practice · Flemish Dutch · Curated for beginners
Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos
What does "bijna niet" mean in Dutch?
It's a Dutch negation pattern. A Dutch near-negation — "barely" or "hardly" — signaling almost-but-not-quite absence.
“Het regent in Madrid en dat is speciaal, want het heeft maandenlang bijna niet geregend.”
Hear "bijna niet" in 3 other Dutch videos:
Learn more about "bijna niet" in Dutch 
About this clip
A 50s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 126 words per minute, rated 2.2/5, easy listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Dutch listening practice listening practice?
93.3%
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
91.1%
Top 1,000
93.3%
Top 2,000
97.8%
Top 5,000
Spoken Dutch frequency
97.6%
Top 1,000
98.8%
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.
miezert
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
drizzles
motregent
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
drizzles lightly
pijpenstelen
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
downpour
emmers
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
buckets
maandenlang
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
for months
het regent pijpenstelen
1×
it's raining heavily or intensively
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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