How to say Please and Thank You in the Dutch language

1. Welcome and what you are going to learn: How to say please and thank you in the Dutch language. Hello and welcome to this short online course where you are going to learn how to say please and thank you in the Dutch language. So saying please and thank you in Dutch will help you to get around and talk and connect with Dutch people. People will appreciate that you are trying to speak Dutch. So after this course, you will be able to say, please and thank you in formal and informal situations, and you will be able to know how to say you're welcome. My name is Raymond Jensen, and I am your Dutch language instructor, and I love making the first steps in learning the Dutch language as straightforward, stimulating and rewarding as possible. I've taught thousands and thousands of students in classrooms and online from all over the world. The Dutch words and phrases that you are going to learn in this course, commonly used in real life situations, and you can use the things you have learned immediately in your daily life. This course won't focus on grammar. That is something that's being taught in my longer language courses. But besides learning words and phrases, we will also do a short and fun quiz together, and I will give you Dutch flashcards to help you improve language retention of the most important words and phrases. If you want to know how to say please and thank you and Dutch, then let's go 2. How to say please and thank you in Dutch : How to say please and thank you in Dutch. Yes, that's what we're going to take a look at and more in this short course. Being able to say please and thank you when you're traveling or living in another country always goes a long way with the local population. In Dutch, the words for please and thank you are the following. The first one is su believed, and the other one is Dunkia. Let's take a closer look at each of those words. So as I mentioned, we have the word please. In English, we have the word please. And in Dutch, we say believed. You see on the left hand side, you see the Dutch words believed, and then in the middle between the Dutch word and the right hand side, the English word, you see the pronunciation of it. You see it as three syllables, two believed. Als believed. That means please. Remember that and repeat after me, believed. Also believed Okay, good. Now you've learned one word. Now the other word that I already quickly mentioned was the word Dunk Dunkia Dunkia means, thank you. Also here in the middle in Italic, you see the pronunciation. The two words are Alteblift and Dunia Dunkia. I just want to give you a quick remark about the pronunciation. In this course, but also in some other courses that I make, we used a simple pronunciation notation system. So you see on the right hand side, you see the phonetic system in that picture. That is really quite difficult to learn that. You first have to study the phonatic system, and then you can study the language. That's not how I want to do it. I want to make it easy for you. So what we have done in this course, we use the simple pronunciation notation system. So on the left hand side, you see the Dutch word, Aust believed in the middle, you see the simple pronunciation notation system. So you see also the syllables. As believed, and that means please. But you have to keep in mind that the pronunciation of this is from an English speaker. If you are a Dutch speaker and you would read the system that we use here, you would say, Oh, but that's not right. But an English speaker, if they pronounce this, they pronounce it actually in the right way. All right, so that's just a quick remark. Let's continue because I'm going to teach you some more. So what are we going to learn in this short course? First of all, we're going to look at how to thank in Dutch to someone older in a formal position, because in the Netherlands, we have a different in how you thank somebody who's, for example, younger or older. What we're also going to look at is how to say thank and show your appreciation. So that's a very strong thanks. Also, what we're going to do is how to say, you're welcome in Dutch. And then also how to say, please in Dutch. How to thank in Dutch to someone older or in a formal situation. Depending on the person you are talking to in Dutch, there are two forms of the singular, and that is and we saw that before, Dan we also have is used as a polite form to strangers, superiors, and in general to persons, a generation older. So Dutch society isn't especially formal, so you don't have to be overly polite in shops, restaurants, and similar environments. But if you are in a more formal situation, then say dunk, which also means thank you. So you see that here on the screen on the left hand side, you see the word dunk and you pronounce that as dunk and on the right hand side, you see the English pronunciation, that means thank you, right? So you know already the difference now between dunk, formal situation, and dunk that is just in an informal casual situation. How to say thank you and show appreciation. So to show that you are very appreciative of something and that you are thankful. We have a few options in Dutch. And first of all, you can say something that means the same as thanks a lot. And in Dutch, that is Dunkel or dunk well. Remember, right? You can say dunk well, but you can also say with it depends on who you say it. All right, so let's take a look dunk well. So Dune well means thank you and Dunkll also means thank you, but that's for a person and a formal position. So please repeat after me, Dunk y well, Dunkvl exactly. All right, repeat after me, Dunkel dunk. Yes. So these are two ways to thank someone and show appreciation. If you want to give someone a thoughtful thanks because someone has been very kind and are helpful, you can say achalk Budat. And the translation of this would be a heart felt thanks. For example, if you get lost in Amsterdam and there's a kind stranger who helps you to find your way back and calls for example, a cap for you. You want to give him or her a heartfelt thanks. So in touch, you would say Hach Bdunct. So you pronounce that into a few syllables. A L dunk. Hatch Bdunct Yes, exactly. That is a heart felt thanks. So repeat after me, Ak Bdunct Aak Bdunct Yes. Very good. Let's continue. If you just want to remember one single word to express your thanks and that you can use in any type of situation, that word would be the same as in English thanks, and that would be Badunt. So I Dutch, we would say Badunt which means thanks. Badunk is good in almost any situation and it's a very versatile expression. So the word is dunk it's two syllables, and that means thanks. Repeat after me. Bang. Bank. Yes, great. How to say your welcome in Dutch. The Dutch equivalent to your welcome has a bit of a different meaning, and it actually means no thanks necessary. In Dutch, we would say in dunk. The phrase is used much less than it's English version. You have to remember that. People say in dunk like you're welcome or no thanks necessary. But it's not that often as in English, but it's a common expression. The phrase that you will use to say you're welcome or no thanks necessary would be dunk or in the northern part of the Netherlands, you would say dunk in dunk. Out, let's go to the next one. How to say please in Dutch as mentioned in the beginning of the course, we can use the word believed. That's the polite form, ltblefd we had a casual form and that was levels believed. Then we can use this word in many situations if we want to ask for something. Let me show you a simple phrase and you see there, and then you see dot dot belived. What you can do there on the dots, you can use a word that you want to say. For example, N, coffee believed, B to believed. What it means is one of something, and then please at the end. If you go into a cafe or in a restaurant or in a shop and you want to order something, you can say N, then you say the object, and then you say lstfdbliefd. All right repeat one more time after me, Alt Alt believed God, Al believed, As believed Good. Then the last small phrase, Ultfdlbliafd. Okay. Well done, well done. So I taught you a few words and some phrases. What we want to do now, I want to check if you remember them, so we're going to do a short and easy Dutch quiz. Let's see if you remember some of the things that we've just learned. The first one, I have a question for you. The question is Dunk does that mean? Henkes that mean thanks? Does that mean heartfelt thanks? Does that mean you're welcome? Or does that mean, please? What do you think? I'll give you 3 seconds. One, two, three, and the right answer is, in dunk means you're welcome. You're welcome. Okay. Good. I have another question for you. Question number two, ache BdunHchabdunt. What does that mean? Does that mean A, you're welcome? B, heartfelt thanks. C, thank you, or D, please. What do you think? Think about it, think about it. And your choice is, what is it? The right answer has to be B. It's a heart felt things. So if somebody does something special for you that's really more than a person normally should do, then you say Hat ledant. All right. Good. Last question. Dk, dunk, very common expression, and this is very useful for you to remember. What do you think this is? Is this A? Thank you neutral? Is this B? Thank you formal? Is this C, heartfelt thanks? Or does this mean D, my pleasure? What do you think? Think about it for a second. Here we go. It means actually thank you neutral. This would be very good to remember. Dunk, you can use in many situations. All right. So these were the most important words and phrases to say, please and thank you. But I want to help you a little bit more. I'm going to provide you with some flashcards. So what are flashcards? So flashcards are being used for language learning, and it's a great way to reinforce words and concepts. So reinforcing helps of course for you to remember it. So these flashcards are little cards, and on the card, you can find a word in Dutch, the pronunciation and the word in English. And you can download them. Attached to this course. You will find a link, and there you can download them, and then you'll get a PDF and you can cut out PDF in small cards. So I'll give you some tips on how to use those flash cards. So first of all, what you want to do is shuffle the cards, separate similar Dutch cards. So for example, we had dunk and dunk. Don't put them behind each other right. Mix them up so they are separated from each other. Then also, what you want to do, read the cards out loud. When you pick up the flash card, read the entire card, by speaking and hearing, you'll create an even stronger connection that will help you remember it later. You can also reverse the approach. Normally you go, for example, from English to Dutch. You look at the English word, and then you think, what does that mean in Dutch and you say it in Dutch. But also, you can do it the other way around, you look at the Dutch and you say, Oh, what does that mean in English. Doing this gives you a new angle, because every time you look at the card in a different way, it helps to deepen your learning. And then another tape is customize what you learn. So once you know some of the basics, focus on language that you need to use. So let's give me an example. So imagine you plan to meet a Dutch friend or on the telephone on Zoom or on Skype, then study up on the relevant language before and make cards with greetings, questions about their well being, practice that a little bit, and then apply it because if you apply something in the reality, you learn a lot. Okay, I hope you're excited about this. I hope you will download it and use it because if you use it, I guarantee you that you will learn Dutch quite quickly. And maybe you even want to learn more. No problem because we have more. So if you want to learn more, let me show you here the courses that we have. So we've just done how to say please and thank you. But we also have several other ones, how to say hello and goodbye, how to say the happy birthday, how to say, I love you. And other things like how to count in Dutch, how to name and pronounce Colors, how to learn the Dutch alphabet and pronunciation and tell the time. So there's enough things for you to learn. So go ahead and learn more Dutch, and I hope I can see you back in the next course. See you there.