Dutch/Lesson 3A
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Beginner level: cycle 1 |
Lesson 3A ~ Lesson 3A
De tijd ~ The time
• Het zwembad ~ The swimming pool |
• Fill in the blanks |
• Time telling |
• Poem |
Gesprek 3A; Het zwembad
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het zwembad | swimming pool | |
de fiets | bicycle | |
laat | late | |
het badpak | bathing suit | |
de handdoek | towel | |
meenemen | take with | |
zwemmen | swim | |
stom | stupid |
Jannie gaat naar school.
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Jannie is going to school
- Mother: What time will you be home?
- Jannie: School finishes at 3:35, but I want to go swimming
- Mother: Not alone, I hope?
- Jannie: No, with Ineke and Gerda. We are going to the swimming pool at four.
- Mother: How are you going there?
- Jannie: On our bikes.
- Mother: And until when will you stay there to swim?
- Jannie: Until a quarter past five. Then I'll be home again just before six o'clock
- Mother: Have you got your bathing suit and your towel
- Jannie: Oh, no! I do have to take those with me... How stupid of me...
Fill-in-the-blank 3A-1
edit- Op een middag gingen de vrienden tot één uur _____.
- Het _____ getal in de reeks 1 2 3 4 5 heet vijf.
- Drie plus zeven is _____
- Elf minus drie is _____
- Twee maal zes is _____
- Twaalf gedeeld door vier is _____
- Jannie komt om ____ weer thuis.
- De ____ van Mt. Everest is 8.848 meter.
Fill-in-the-blank 3A-2
editPut 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
editGo and practice your colors if you have not already. Then fill in the blanks:
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Deze kikker is ____. | Deze vogel is ____. | Dit cavansiet is ____ | Zwavel is ____. | Dit stuk biotiet is ____ |
Pronunciation drill 3A
edit- Dat begrijp ik niet - I don't understand that
- Ik spreek geen Nederlands - I don't speak Dutch
Exercise 3A-1: Gender
editPut the correct definite article de or het in front of these nouns and translate:
- grootte
- heuvel
- kanaal
- lamp
- meisje
- mens
- doedelzak
- dorp
- golf
- eiland
- sloot
- piano
- thee
- toeter
- water
- week
- straat
- warmte
- de grootte - size
- de heuvel - hill
- het kanaal - canal
- de lamp - lamp
- het meisje -girl
- de mens - human being
- de doedelzak - bagpipe
- het dorp - village
- de golf - wave
- het eiland - island
- de sloot - ditch
- de piano - piano
- de thee - tea
- de toeter - claxon
- het water - water
- de week - week
- de straat - street
- de warmte - heat
Quiz 3A
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Some more about telling time
editExpressing pm versus am
editIn 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.
3am: | drie | uur | 's nachts |
9am: | negen | uur | 's morgens |
3pm: | drie | uur | 's middags |
9pm: | negen | uur | 's avonds |
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:
de nacht the night |
de morgen the morning |
de middag the afternoon |
de avond the evening |
Instead of "'s morgens" one can also use "'s ochtends"
The times 12pm and 12am are called
de middernacht midnight |
het middaguur noon |
Parts of the hour
editWe 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
editWhen 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
editStudy the following poem by Willem Willink and then watch the video
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- The sheep is sleepy
- The cow is tired
- The pig closes its little eyes
- The horse looks over the barbed wire and thinks: "It is awfully late".
- The hen softly says "tok" once again, and och, there she sleeps on her stick
- The farmer also crawls into bed, nice and snug next to the farmer's wife.
There is also a version with music by Harry Bannink.
In case you want to wish someone good night:
welterusten!
Quizlet
editThe vocabulary of this lesson can be practiced at Quizlet (31 terms)
Progress made
editIf you have studied the material above well you should
- know your colors
- be able to tell time 24 hours a day.
- have gained another 31 vocabulary terms
Cumulative term count
- Lessons 1: 226
- Lessons 2: 161
- Lesson 3: 44 3A: 31
- Grand total
- 462 terms.