At Dutch markets and supermarkets, you will regularly buy food by weight, volume, or container. Knowing standard Dutch shopping units allows you to ask for exactly what you need at the counter. In this deck, you will learn common grocery items, traditional market weights, packaging types, and how to inquire about prices.

In Dutch, units of measurement stay singular after a number. A kilogram is 'een kilo', and gram is 'gram'. Half a kilo is 'een halve kilo'. Apples are 'appels' and tomatoes are 'tomaten'. For example, 'een kilo appels' means 'a kilo of apples', and 'een halve kilo tomaten' means 'half a kilo of tomatoes'.

At the produce stall, you will often buy bananas, potatoes, and onions. In Dutch, these plural nouns are 'de bananen', 'de aardappelen', and 'de uien'. For example, to say 'a kilo of bananas', you say 'een kilo bananen'.