What is a Dutch “kringloop”?
Opruimen, naar de kringloop en een nieuwe outfit
A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Picked for people who know a little
Kringloop literally means “cycle” or “loop,” but in everyday Dutch it’s the standard word for a thrift shop. Kringloopwinkels sit in nearly every Dutch town and large city, and most are run by social-economy nonprofits that double as job-training programs for people re-entering the workforce. The network is dense, the prices are low, and donating is the Dutch default for outgrown clothes, surplus furniture, and end-of-life household goods. Going naar de kringloop is its own verb-phrase routine.
In this clip, a Dutch family clears out a closet and drives the bags to a kringloopwinkel before shopping for a fresh outfit on the way home.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.
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