These DUTCH WORDS sound FUNNY in other languages!

These Dutch words sound totally weird in other languages...

We asked our students of the Dutch Summer School which Dutch words shocked them, because of similarities with their own language...

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Video produced by:
Bart de Pau
(online Dutch teacher and founder of the Dutch Summer School)

Editing: Nicolas Balbontin, Claudia Macchiavelli, Kim van den Corput
Music used under license: Korolkov

Video was recorded at the BLC Dutch Summer School in Drenthe

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[heinmaathuis]

England: inferiority
Germany: unterlegenheid
Sweden: underlägsenhet
Switzerland: underlegenhed
Norway: underlegenhet
Dutch: minderwaardigheidsgevoel

[Annkhes]

I was with my Dutch boyfriend and his friends in a waffle shop ordering food. I was reading the menu, and asked what "slagroom" meant. They laughed, because I pronounced it the English way, slag room... a room for slags.

[smittaz]

I was in America once, and bumped into this guy.. As a Dutch person I was like 'Ho'.. You should've seen the guys face 😂

[lannydragonlover]

Zo had ik nog nooit gedacht over 'hoor', haha! Geweldig!

[Jonathan-kraai]

a dutch guy told me a story where he went to germany for work. he was working with one german guy.
after some hours on his first day his boss approched them and seriously asked 'und? kommt ihr zusammen klar?'
the dutch guy was totally stunned. didnt know what to say. he told he didnt answer for a couple of seconds while having thoughts like 'he can not mean what he just saied. why would my boss ask me this??'
so he just answered '...yes'
his boss was happy and went away.

*note for the dutchies: germans say 'klar kommen' when they want to point out that there is no problem at all
*note for the germans: dutchies say 'klar kommen' to point out that they have an organsm

[KorehannahBuitenlander]

I learned that ’poepen’ can mean differently in Dutch and Flemish😂😂😂

[charlesdikkema]

Wait... French people speaking English in this video... Nonsense!

[SjaakSchulteis]

I used to work as a flight attendant for Lufthasa German Airlines. My German collegues thought it very funny when we were in Schiphol and we had to be in the "bemanningsruimte"... Bemannung in German means having sex. The German word would be: "Besatzungsraum"... And also what they found funny: the dutch word bellen. Bellen in German means blaffen in Dutch.

[hathi]

Ik ben verrast dat niemand (dat Engels spreekt) “u kunt” zei. 😝

[quickman]

🐄
This is a koe.
The koe has a huge koe.
And the koeien have big couilles.

[jwvdvuurst]

Andersom kan ook. Het Zweedse woord voor fiets "Cykel" word uitgesproken als "Sukkel" 😉

[rubysaleh]

I wish you got someone Arabic! There’s a lot of funny resemblances :)

[vikingas_g]

As Lithuanian i find word "waarom" very weird😅 waarom in Lithuanian is like: let's go!, let's do this!

[gast]

..oth we have no trouble in speaking out the name of seventh planet 'Uranus'.

[rrcchhnnkkhhiijjiinnkk]

Ik kwam in Oostenrijk eens een Smart autootje tegen met daarop "Hoermobil", duidelijk voor zeer intieme klusjes...😝, die is natuurlijk van een oorarts (de ö in hören wordt soms als oe geschreven).

[thirzawesselink]

At 1:28, I think I know what word she means: Troep.
In Dutch it means: a mess
In Eastern European countries like Poland, Kazakhstan or Russia it means: dead people.
Was quite funny when I asked a Russian friend to clean up the mess (troep). She looked at me quite shocked 😂

[justagirl]

Ik vind het gewoon leuk om te horen hoe ze dat zeggen in dutch

[MHWdJ]

elkaar heeft dezelfde betekenis in basque? dat is verrassend, want ik had begrepen dat basque de taal is die het meest verschild van andere europeaanse talen. (niet indo-europees van oorsprong)

[massimilianotosi]

Ok, so Dutch people swear like Italians do, after all Amstredam is the Venice of the north 🇮🇹🧡🇳🇱

[ratchetenclank]

That Brazilian guy (Felipe) speaks Dutch very well!