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Spoken Diminutives with Het

Master spoken Dutch diminutives, learning the universal rule where every diminutive takes 'het', along with high-frequency suffixes and everyday conversational phrases.

A vibrant, warm close-up photograph of two friends laughing and clinking small beer glasses ('biertjes') on a sunny terrace in a Dutch city. On the wooden table, there are also a 'broodje kaas' (cheese roll) and 'koekjes' (biscuits), emphasizing small, casual delights. The background shows blurred canal houses, capturing a cosy, everyday Dutch social scene, composed for a 3:2 landscape frame.
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38 Cards
Lesson#1
In Dutch, diminutives turn everyday nouns into smaller, cosier, or more casual versions of themselves. Best of all, every single diminutive in the singular becomes a 'het' word, no matter what its original gender was. In this deck, you will learn how to form these spoken words and use them naturally in daily conversation.
Lesson#2
To form a basic diminutive, Dutch often adds the ending J E to the base noun. Crucially, every diminutive in the singular takes the definite article 'het' and the indefinite article 'een', even if the base noun took 'de'. For example, 'de kop', meaning the cup, becomes 'het kopje', meaning the little cup.
Quiz#3
How do you say 'the little cup' in Dutch?

het kopje

Quiz#4
How do you say 'a little cup' in Dutch?

een kopje

Lesson#5
Diminutives are very common with food and drink to describe a single portion or snack. 'Het brood', meaning bread, becomes 'het broodje', meaning the bread roll or sandwich. Similarly, 'het bier', meaning beer, becomes 'het biertje' when referring to a single glass or bottle.
Quiz#6
How do you say 'the bread roll' in Dutch?

het broodje

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