Dutch/Lesson 3A

Fill-in-the-blank 3A-1

 * Op een middag gingen de vrienden tot één uur.
 * Het getal in de  1 2 3 4 5 heet vijf.
 * Drie plus zeven is
 * Elf minus drie is
 * Twee zes is
 * Twaalf vier is
 * Jannie komt om weer thuis.
 * De van Mt. Everest is 8.848 meter.

Fill-in-the-blank 3A-2
Put the following words in the right sentence:


 * eigenlijk, gisteren, langzaam, nieuw, prettig, klokkentoren, liever, pak, kennis te maken, nu


 * Vandaag is het de twaalfde Mei, dus was het de elfde.
 * Zij wilde liever buiten zitten.
 * Op de zien ze dat het twee uur is.
 * Ik kan hem goed verstaan. Hij praat
 * Heb je een fiets? Erg mooi!
 * Hij is gisteren uit Engeland gekomen en hij is hier op bezoek.
 * Hij stelt zich voor en zegt : "Aangenaam met u !"
 * Nee, geen thee voor mij. Ik heb een biertje.
 * De meneer in het restaurant zei: "Ik even de menukaarten".
 * Het was erg buiten op het terras.

Vocabulary
Go and practice your colors if you have not already. Then fill in the blanks:

Pronunciation drill 3A

 * Dat begrijp ik niet - I don't understand that


 * Ik spreek geen Nederlands - I don't speak Dutch

Quiz 3A
{What is this? -het strand -het bos +de heide -de polder
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{ Listen and translate { Pleasant | pleasant | Nice | nice _9 }
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{Translate into Dutch I would like a beer - Ik wil graag een { biertje _8 } The water is frozen and we are skating - Het water is { bevroren _10 } en wij zijn aan het { schaatsen _11} Some cities have canals - Sommige steden hebben { grachten _10 }
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{ Listen and translate { Someone | someone _8 }
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{Select the correct translations --+-hill +---ditch ---+river -+--bridge
 * type="[]" }
 * sloot|brug|heuvel|rivier

Expressing pm versus am
In Dutch, rather than using am/pm, the 24 hours of a day are roughly divided in four 6 hour periods with four adverbial expressions. Click on the arrows to hear the pronunciation. Notice that each of these adverbial expressions start with 's. It is an abbreviation of the old genitive masculine of the article de: des. The nouns behind it also have an -s as ending. This too is an old fossilized genitive. Dutch no longer has a functioning system of case endings like German does, but there is plenty of relics still in daily use.

The nouns used are:

Instead of "'s morgens" one can also use "'s ochtends"

The times 12pm and 12am are called

Parts of the hour
We have seen that "half" is used to show the half hour, but the usage is different by one whole hour


 * Halftwee 's middags - Half past one in the afternoon.

The quarter hours are not so hard


 * Kwart voor twee - 1h45
 * Kwart over twee - 2h15

A few minutes before or after the hour go the same way:


 * Vijf voor vier: 3h55
 * Tien over vier: 4:10

However, closer to the half hours, the half hour can be taken as reference point:


 * Vijf over half twee: 1:35
 * Tien voor half zes:  5:20

In the latter case we can also use the closest whole hour as reference point:


 * Twintig na vijf:  5:20

Numbers after a preposition
When an approximate reference to an hour is given by just a numeral after a preposition, the numeral may have an ending -en. Once again this is a relict of the case endings, a dative in this case.

E.g. the last example could also be


 * Twintig na vijven:  5:20

This is more common in sentences like


 * Het is even voor drieën - It's almost three o'clock
 * Het loopt al tegen tienen - It's running on ten o'clock
 * Na zessen is het bureau gesloten - After six the bureau is closed.

Time to sleep
Study the following poem by Willem Willink and then watch the video



There is also a version with music by Harry Bannink.

In case you want to wish someone good night: !

Quizlet
The vocabulary of this lesson can be practiced at Quizlet (31 terms)

Progress made
If you have studied the material above well you should
 * 1) know your colors
 * 2) be able to tell time 24 hours a day.
 * 3) have gained another 31 vocabulary terms

Cumulative term count


 * Lessons 1: 226
 * Lessons 2: 161
 * Lesson 3: 44 3A: 31


 * Grand total: 462 terms.