What does “ziet het zitten” mean in Flemish?
Kandidaat krijgt opdracht in Wie is de Mol? België
A2 Dutch listening practice · Flemish Dutch · Picked for people who know a little
Flemish has a phrase for “Are you up for it?” or “Does this work for you?”: ziet (het) zitten? The construction comes from iets zien zitten (“to see something sitting”), a Dutch idiom meaning to see oneself doing something or to feel positive about a plan. The Flemish version often drops the pronoun het (“it”) and uses the verb-first cadence: Ziet zitten? In Netherlands Dutch, you’d more often say Zie je het zitten? with the pronoun. The Flemish version is shorter, snappier, and a reliable dialect tell.
In this clip, a producer at the Belgian show Wie is de Mol? tells a tenth candidate they’re in, then asks: “Ziet zitten?” (“Up for it?”).
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- ▸In Belgian reality TV (Wie is de Mol?, Big Brother België)
- ▸In Flemish workplace conversations between colleagues
- ▸In Flemish casting and TV-production content
- ▸In Flemish weekend-plan negotiations between friends
- ▸In Flemish parenting and family-meal chat