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474 local dialects

What locals actually say

Shall we grab a beer?

Zullen we een biertje doen?

The diminutive “biertje” is the natural way to offer a beer, and doing a beer is idiomatic Dutch. “Een bier drinken” is correct and wooden.

That's fun!

Leuk!

“Leuk” covers a space English splits into nice, fun, and cute. One word, complete reaction.

It's so cozy here.

Wat gezellig hier.

“Gezellig” is the famously untranslatable Dutch warmth word. Any translator that avoids it is not writing Dutch.

That costs an arm and a leg.

Dat kost een rib uit m'n lijf.

Een rib uit m'n lijf is a Dutch idiom for something very expensive and signals an informal, emphatic complaint.

Turn left at the traffic lights.

Sla bij de stoplichten linksaf.

Stoplichten is the everyday Netherlands Dutch word for traffic lights, while linksaf signals the specifically Dutch directional adverb construction.

I'll have the soup of the day.

Doe mij maar de soep van de dag.

Doe mij maar is the common Dutch ordering construction and signals a casual, direct choice.

My parents are coming over this weekend.

Mijn ouders komen dit weekend langs.

Langskomen means to come over for a visit and signals ordinary informal Dutch for visiting someone at home.

It's raining cats and dogs.

Het regent pijpenstelen.

Pijpenstelen is the Dutch idiom for very heavy rain and gives the sentence a familiar, expressive local tone.

Notes like these come with every AIRTranslate translation, so you learn why locals phrase it that way as you go.

Netherlands Dutch. Je/jij informal widely acceptable, u increasingly formal-only; direct pragmatic register; leuk, gezellig, hartstikke casually.

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