Zelf pannenkoeken bakken met spek en kaas

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A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners

Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos

What does "even wachten" mean in Dutch?

It's a Dutch even + verb construction. A Dutch "just hold on" — combining even (briefly) with wachten (wait) for a soft pause request.

“En even wachten.”
Hear "even wachten" in 3 other Dutch videos:
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About this clip

A 59s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 134 words per minute, rated 2.8/5, 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?

75.6%
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

68.9%
Top 1,000
75.6%
Top 2,000
87.8%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

79.2%
Top 1,000
87%
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.

pannenkoek
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
pancake
spek
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
bacon

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

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