What's positive about falling with your nose in the butter? Well, until a few generations ago, butter was considered to be a luxury, ordinary people didn't get to taste it very often, only on special occasions. So falling into it was like getting an unexpected treat.
There's a bit of a story behind the "bacon and beans". In the past, once the weather gets cold enough to freeze the many rivers and lakes, skating competitions would be organized. Competitors were supposed to buy into that race and the winner would get the pot. Thing is, most of the poorer people, like farm hands, wouldn't be able to afford the entrance fee. To give the rich kids a bit more competition, everyone was allowed to join for "spek en bonen". Meaning, you can't actually win the race pot, but you'd get fed for your efforts.
When you start translating the words in expressions just literally, you're in for a real treat :-) !...... All of a sudden you are handling the dust sucker instead of the vacuum cleaner ;-) and that list can get very, very long !!!
12:13 'Pissen' is a Dutch word. The reason they laughed is probably because it's considered a rude word for it. 'Piesen' is basically the same, just more old-fashioned, I think. 'Plassen' is the formal word for it.
One of the most famous Dutch " ezelsbruggetje" is TV-TAS. It stands for all the names of islands we have in the North / Waddensea. They are, from west to east: Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland, Schiermonnikoog.
Voor spek en bonen meedoen (join for bacon and beans) is often used while playing a boardgame, and for example a very young child wants to join in, he can play for bacon and beans. It means he participates but can not lose or win. Or for example while playing a poker game at home with inexperienced players, you may play a practice round with no real bets and nothing to win; it’s for bacon and beans.
Im half Duch and half American, and its always hillarious to mess with relatives on both sides with Dutch and American English. By the way with the amount of Dutch related vidoes you've made; The Netherlands might as well adopt you😉🙃.
'Hoor' comes from the verb 'horen', to listen, so could be translated as 'you hear', or 'listen up'. Nothing wrong with that. A word I have more difficulty with is 'kont'. This is best translated as 'arse', and is not gender specific; we all have one. But it sounds so much like the English 'c' word that I have difficulty in saying it, even though my Dutch friends say it all the time and it isn't considered particularly rude. I have no difficulty with 'mierenneuker', which is a great word and should be adopted into English without delay. Another favourite of mine is the verb 'ijsberen', literally 'to polar bear', i.e. to walk up and down with a worried look on your face like a polar bear in a zoo.
Yeah, hoor kind of translates to "I hear ya", in that context. So sort of as in: Yes (answering your question), I hear you (but I understand you asking).
The funny thing about "hoor" is that if you read and pronounce it the English way, you already say the Dutch cognate translation of the word it sounds like in English, which in Dutch is spelled with "oe" instead of "oo".
English has also strange expressions: It is raining cats and dogs. Some other funny Dutch words/expressions: *Schapenwolkjes: little sheep clouds: those little white fluffy clouds in a beautiful blue sky * als de kat van huis is, dansen de muizen op tafel: if the cat is not at home, the mice danse on the table * hoge bomen vangen veel wind: tall trees catch a lot of wind * daar heb ik geen kaas van gegeten: I didn't eat cheese from that: I don't know anything about that * Wat heb ik nu aan mijn fiets hangen? What is hanging from my bicycle? : Something unexoected happened
"Horen" means "to hear" and "to listen" is "luisteren" - two essentially different processes. As to "kont" I have always wondered how either we or the French have swapped words versus anatomy - rectal and female frontal anatomic openings.
With regard to the 'c/k' word, I think that this is a generic old English word for a narrow opening or crack. For example, the narrow arrow slits in a mediaeval castle were called by this word. So it could be used to describe either of these things.@@jpdj2715
Fun fact: if you go to a parts store and you ask for a dustsuckersnake, they won't look at you in a weird way. I have heard this exact list before in a different video, maybe on her channel? :P
@@MarcelNL On the other hand, if you would be asking the Dutch or better educated Belgians for a vacuümreiniger in the preparation phase of an exercise in a NATO context, they are more likely to think you have been sent on a fool's errand...
the origin of "Kinderkopjes: The name for the cobblestone is literally a size. As large as the head of a small child. In ths south of the country and in Flanders, the name is not (or barely) used and they are called Kassei (plural: kasseien) Met je neus in de boter vallen: There have been several times in Dutch history in which butter was something only for the welathy and upper class. So if one fell with their nose into butter, they clearly were lucky people. Pissen: It actually does translate from English to Dutch. Pissen is used, it is considered slang but I have said "Ik mot ff pissen (I have to go piss real quickly) often enough That entire line with the exception of "ik" is basically "alternative Dutch". mot is slang for moet (in this case, "een mot" would be " a moth" as in the animal) ff is shorthand for "even" which in this case means "quickly/in a hurry" but the everday meaning is "in a bit/while" or "for a short time" depending on it's use. Even is also the Dutch word for ... even (as in odds and evens) Op die fiets: Did you know we have no idea etymological speaking where "fiets" is originating from? Some suggestions are: 1. Derived from the French word Velocipede, 2. From South Limburgian dialect Vietse which means, or at least used to mean quick walking/running, 3. From the name of a smith/bike rental in Wageningen called Ellie Viets, 4: From the name of a bycicle club from Apeldaoor "La Vitesse" or (my favorite)5: an onomatopoeia from "the sound it makes when using it.. being fts". We do know it originiated somewhere in the 1860's. Another popular one with fiets is "Ga toch fietsen" ("just go cycling" as a variant of the English "ah f off") Op je klompen aanvoelen: Doesn't it make sense? If you can feel it in your clogs (a footwear putely made as protection for your feet), it must have been very very obvious what you stepped in. Also, clogs are made of wood, wood works with weather. So farmers could feel with their clogs what kind of weather they could expect. Clogs feel different in summer then they do in winter, different in rain then in dry. So if your toe freezes off because it is so dang cold, you could have felt that upfront when putting your clogs on your feet. Spek en bonen: similar to the butter example but the other way around. Bacon and beans were the cheapest forms of food in most of Dutch history. The boar has been part of Dutch nature since long before we got here. Pork (and in extension bacon) have been primary food sources forever. Therefor if you participated in something and the price was bacon and/or beans, the price was pretty worthless.
@@dark-angel1784 ze zijn beide in gebruik. maar neus is het origineel. Het komt uit een stuk van Bredero uit 1613. wellicht eerst voortaan even checken voordat je het "beter weet"
@@joriskuipers4112 Ik weet niet man, ben maar een Utrechter, wat weet ik nou van het Noorden. Heb persoonlijk nog nooit Kasseien gehoord in Utrecht of Noord Holland. Kan niet spreken over Groningen en Friesland, hoe noemen ze het daar? Geen Kasseien iig.
"voor spek en bonen meedoen" usually is used when a to young kid wants to join a game for higher age. The grown-up people would say it to the elder kids and then it means: let him join and let the little kid think he is participating the game. So like with monopoly: give the kids some money, throw the dice, walk around the board.
A "legend" of ladybug is that in medieval time a man was about to be executed by beheading. But just before the chop he said stop because there was a bug on his neck. He takes the bug and places it on a bush. And comes back for the beheading. His compasion compells his executioners to set him free. And he thanks the bug. And the bug must be sent by god. So the bug is called "dear lords creature" ( lieve heers beestje)
As early as the first century AD, Pliny wrote about donkeys that did not want to walk over a bridge when they saw the water through it; they must then be guided. In this sense, the mnemonic is a difficulty that can be solved with a little trick.
As regards to the pissen/ plassen thing (pissing/ peeing), there's another Dutch saying: Toen piesen plassen werd, begon het gezeik. It basically translates to: "When pissing became peeing, the bullshit started." Kind of an early anti-woke/ PC joke I suppose. Only in Dutch, gezeik, or zeiken, is another word for pissing (pissen/ piesen).
Not totally true. I'm german , but this word was/is normal im my lokal dialekt. That died in the last decades killed by four hundred years of prussian laws and high dutch speakers moving in.
Ezel (donkey or ass) is also a derogatory term for someone who is dumb. An ezelsbruggetje therefore is an aid to help dumb down difficult information (to bridge the knowledge gap, so you will). Originally the term was used for Euclid's theorem Pons asinorum, which generally speaking is translated Bridge of asses in English. In Dutch the phrase evolved beyond a single theorem or a single subject.
Here's another one "Ben je van de pot gerukt?" which literally translates to "Have you been pulled off the shitter?" it means "are you crazy/insane?" usually said when someone is really angry at you.
oh i forgot something I know you like paintings from old dutch painters ...like Pieter Bruegel Dutch Proverbs is an oil painting from 1559, painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting shows at least 125 Dutch proverbs and sayings that were common at the time. Some are still used today.
18:02 rewatching this funny reaction and yes, you are right... we Dutchies also love our windmills... "Hij/zij heeft een klap van de molen gehad" He/she has been hit by a windmill... when you talk to your friends about that particulair person who is the crazy one.. or when boss tells to make an impossible job to finnish, you tell your coworkers, well boss has had a klap van de molen gehad.. Knocked his head, concussion, brain stopped functioning properly
Thanks for these eighteen minutes of pure entertainment; I can't remember the last time I've had to laugh so hard over someone's reactions. It really made me stop and think about my native tongue. And how about "muggenziften", or "to filter mosquitoes?" ;)
Het op je klompen aanvullen. To feel it in your clogs. Remember the Star Trek episode Relics? In which Scotty says that he could tell what's wrong with the ship or how fast it was going, just bij the floorplates? It's an old farmers thing as far as I know. They could tell bad weather was comming and such
The other way around it's the same thing, I am in the US for 27 years now.. the first year or two I always had to grin when I heard the word 'cut' ... and then at some place I worked the word lull was used at times for stuff.. Once I responded with "It's better to lull on a staircase then to staircase on a lull" ... After people looking puzzled I said "I can't translate it really well except literally .. it's a dutch thing." (Oh and there are more of those words.. if you start thinking... same with license plates haha)
Haha that reminds me of my dad who hardly knew English at all and went on a trip to Londen. He saw a barbershop which had window advertisement saying Super Cut! He loved it and said I want to go here. He had to hear it for years.
Hond in de pot, comes out of the 16th/17th century. When the rests of diner would be fed to the dogs in the large manors. So to find the dog in the pot.. means you're too late mate. The dog got all the left overs...
With the idioms you must understand that some have been around for years and years. "To fall with your nose in the butter" originates from the 1700's. It sounds weird nowadays, but back then, during lent people were not allowed to eat meat and dairy, products but wealthy people could buy a permit to eat it. Those were called "boterbrief" (butter letter) and since butter and meat were really luxurious products back then, it kind of meant you were lucky enough and this then translated to "fall with your nose in the butter." In some parts of the country it was said you fell with your arse in the butter, this is the idiom in Belgium, met uw gat in de boter vallen.
The Netherlands was and sometimes still is a swampy country. A farmer had to explore his land, step by step. His clogs were the compass. An experienced farmer sensed whether he could take one more step before he sank. If something goes wrong, you don't feel it right. You should have seen it coming.
The 'hoor' expression/addition to a sentence is derived from the term 'to hear' in the sense of 'understand' or 'notice' and serves as a affirmation of the previous used word or sentence.😁
8:01 ooh you in english speaking haave "Daddy Longlegs" funny name for a spider.. that one in Dutch is Hooiwagen Haywagon, but I think in old days it be Haypile with the roof on it..
11:04 ..when the positive comes truly un expected... like you think you gonna fall, break your nose on the floor, but hey!! You fell in butter, nose thill works :D
Purely by coincidence a couple of years ago, I was walking outside with a good friend, and we saw a lieveheersbeestje, a ladybug. And then I said: that would sound weird in English: a dear lord’s beastie. After that we laughed out loud.
Wow, never realised. "ja, hoor". "Hoor" is primarily the first person, current tense of the verb "horen" (to hear). Not sure how it ended up in the expression as "Yes, hear" (but could imagine how it is a shortening)
Yes, we are crazy people and we will make an idiom about you some day.... "Bij Highly in de schuur zijn de videos niet duur" meaning "At Highly in the shed the videos are not expensive". No, sounds better in Dutch 😂
6:00 There's also "ezelsoor" (donkey's ear), meaning a fold made in a page of a book to easily find it back later. I think it's called a dog's ear in English? 7:40 I'd say "beestje" could be translated to "bug" in this case (we don't have a word like that specifically for insects). There are some regional variants as well, in Rotterdam they call it "kapoentje" for example, which literally means little capon (castrated rooster).
In the past, the word boterbrief (butter letter) was used jokingly for a certain type of "indulgence letters". An indulgence (Latin: indulgentia) is a remission before God of temporal punishment (penance) derived from the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. These letters gave permission to eat butter, cheese, eggs and meat during the fast days. The common people were not allowed to use butter during the fasting days because it was too luxurious. That's why those who were allowed to do so were in luck.
To feel it on your clogs - it’s something so obvious you could feel through your wooden shoes. Like ‘that should not be a mystery to anyone’ Weirdly simultaneously it refers to feeling intuitively. You should have felt (intuitively) it coming it’s so obvious.
i used a nice idiom today. i wrote to a friend nu breekt mijn klomp (now my clog ik breaking which means you encounter something unexpected) im disabled and have a cat plus 2 cats from the neighbours visit me on a daily bases. the dutch dierenbescherming (aspca for the netherlands) has a service where a volonteer comes to you to help out with pet related stuff. so i have a buddy who comes and washes out the litterbox once a week ( i keep up with clearing the dirt out through the week) today she though what has she done with the box now cause it was very heavy when she opened it we found out a neighbour cat has choosen the litterbox as his favorite sleeping spot. we couldnt stop laughing. so i didnt find a dog in the pot but a cat in the litterbox
You're so right on the "klompen" the are thick, and no you would not feel it. And that is exactly the point! "Op je klompen aanvoelen" means something is SO obvious, you could have/should have seen it coming. Like, "even if you wore "klompen" you would stil feel it/know it. It's THAT obvious.
Meaning of "You can feel that on your clogs": "That is so obvious that you should have known it or you should have seen it coming" (association: Clogs are very simple / crude shoes. So if you can feel it on you clogs, it is really obvious and predictable...)
‘On that bike’ it’s like on that other specific bike and not the one I was thinking about first. (So it’s a different thing as what it appeared to be first and now I got it)
Ja hoor = yeah sure. Wat hoor ik? = What do I hear? Dat hoort zo = It's supposed to be like that. How about this one: Dat slaat als een tang op een varken" (also: "dat slaat nergens op") = that makes no sense.
2:46 There are video's of Dutch learners who can't pronounce uu and thus talked about paying the hore (hoer) when they ment rent (huur). Everyone makes such mistakes, especialy in foreign languages. I once accidentally used sensual instead of sensitive. I knew it was something with to sense, but guessed the wrong one.😅
The word "hoor", can be a verb which translates to "hear". "Ik hoor haar" means "I hear her" But there is also the 2nd meaning of "hoor" which can be used to put emphasize on it "Ik hoor haar echt wel hoor" meaning "I really DO hear her" or "Listen to me! I DO hear her!" or "Hear me out! I do hear her!"
Op je klompen aanvoelen: klompen (wooden shoes) are related to being logical, simple and practical. So, to feel it coming on your wooden shoes, means: it is very logical that this would happen . . . You could see it coming.
If you take dutch idioms too literal, and imagine the situation, it might make sense. Imagine a rainy day, people walk outside through the mud and suddenly they find a stone in the mud. They felt that stone through the clocks, even when the clocks are so thick as can be.
3:47 My great-aunt had a Spanish neighbour who could not pronounce the UU, quite right. If she would say the rent (huur) was high, she would say it like a h**ker was expensive with an OE. I can imagine the discomfort of almost wh*re.
lady bug is lieveheersbeestje , sweet lords creature, but in my dutch dialect, accent, slang ( east of the netherlands ) it is called zonnekoekje ( suncookie )
"Tweede leg" that Ava translates as second lay, does not reference getting laid but the laying of eggs by birds in potentially a new nest. The ambiguity that Ava's English translation may have is not present in Dutch.
Im a south african and speak fluent afrikaans. Similar to dutch. We also have a lot of words translated into english is hard to do. Eg: babalaas means hangover. Too funny
Alternative for mierenneuker: muggenzifter! (putting mosquitoes through a sieve) But trust me mierenneuker is so totally normal to say. Fun videos guys! Love from Holland.
Met de mond vol tanden staan (To sit with your mouth full of teeth) Meaning to be speechless. op zijn tandvlees lopen (to walk on one’s gums), meaning to be exhausted. And the list goes on 😂
Dat kon je op je klompen aanvoelen (You could have felt that on your clogs). Keeping in mind that clogs were made for farmers and fishermen to not feel or get hurt bij hard or sharp objects, the meaning of the idiom becomes quite clear. Something was so obvious that was going to happen, that even on/through your clogs you could have felt it.
I'm somewhat familiar with the term 'kinderkopjes', which doesn't make very much sense to me as a Dutch guy either. I believe the people in my enviroment, which is another part of the country than Ava has been living, call these things 'klinkers' (plural form of 'klinker'). I'm not sure how to properly translate this, but I think it has something to do with the clunking sounds the tires of cars make when driving over them. There is also the reason that it's not easy to translate this properly, because the word 'klinker(s)' is a homonym that can also be used to mean 'vowel(s)'. However, that meaning has nothing to do with this. There is yet another name for these stones that both the Dutch and Flemish people are familiar with, in particular those who have an interest in on-road bicycle racing, and that term is 'kasseien' (which I can't translate at all. The term 'kinderkopjes' only refers to the size of these stones - as small as children's heads -, but I understand how weird and morbid it sounds to people speaking other languages as their native language. One other thing on that phrase with the cheese involved. In most cases, if someone is not referring to themselves, this means something like 'You don't know how to do that, now do you' or 'You don't know anything about this'. It has a rather negative tone to it in cases like this. But in a more neutral way, you could also say about yourself that you don't have the particular knowledge needed for the subject in question. I've got another one for you. "Oh, jij hebt stront aan de knikker." This is a kind of slang, and t sentence literally means "Oh, you've got shit on the marble." The 'marble' actually refers to your head in a way (it's round), but more specifically to your mind. In more proper English this would mean something like "Now you got a serious problem on your hands/mind" or "You're in trouble, man", depending on the situation. Can you give us Dutch people some examples of some things that people speaking English would say, but would get weird reactions on from us Dutch speakers, if you can think of any?
Faling with your nose in the butter stems from a time were Butter was a luxury item. So a negative (faling) gains you a positive (butter) My favoriete literal translation of a dutch saying is:" Unfortunately peanut butter" Witch means: You are fresh out of luck
I have been here 16 years. Ik ben nu 16 jaar hier in Zwolle. Je kunt niet geloof hoe veel Engels swear words , ik spreek bijna gewoonlijke ik nog steeds en dutch word read in Engelse Eerste. Hoor!
What's positive about falling with your nose in the butter? Well, until a few generations ago, butter was considered to be a luxury, ordinary people didn't get to taste it very often, only on special occasions. So falling into it was like getting an unexpected treat.
Also, even if butter wasn't luxury, falling with your nose into the butter would be better than falling and hitting your nose on the concrete
In Belgium we say "met uw gat in de boter vallen" or falling with your ass in the butter.
The most accurate literal translation of "lieveheersbeestje" is "[the] Dear Lord's little animal"
Ik dacht altijd dat een letterlijke vertaling "jesus bug" was. 😂😂
There's a bit of a story behind the "bacon and beans". In the past, once the weather gets cold enough to freeze the many rivers and lakes, skating competitions would be organized. Competitors were supposed to buy into that race and the winner would get the pot. Thing is, most of the poorer people, like farm hands, wouldn't be able to afford the entrance fee. To give the rich kids a bit more competition, everyone was allowed to join for "spek en bonen". Meaning, you can't actually win the race pot, but you'd get fed for your efforts.
I didn’t know that- but this makes so much sense seeing how we use this.
I am dutch and today I learned something, thank you
15:25 That makes the idiom work. It is so obvious that even when wearing clogs you can still feel it under your feet.
nou breekt m'n klomp, hoor
@@JanVanGalen Dan kun je beter met je klompen van het ijs blijven
"dat kun je op je klompen aanvoelen": when something is so very obvious, you can feel it even through your hard wooden clogs. 😄
Dutch wooden clogs tend to be made of soft woods, like poplar and willow... But still, it takes considerable force to be noticed through it.
We really are a quirky bunch of people 😂
When you start translating the words in expressions just literally, you're in for a real treat :-) !...... All of a sudden you are handling the dust sucker instead of the vacuum cleaner ;-) and that list can get very, very long !!!
Unfortunatley, peanut butter. LMAO. It don't sound right.😊
you mean 'peanutcheese'@@flatpigeon9349 😅
12:13 'Pissen' is a Dutch word. The reason they laughed is probably because it's considered a rude word for it. 'Piesen' is basically the same, just more old-fashioned, I think. 'Plassen' is the formal word for it.
Ik vind "toen plassen pissen werd is het gezeik begonnen" altijd hilarusch uit de mond van mijn keurige vader 😂😂
One of the most famous Dutch " ezelsbruggetje" is TV-TAS. It stands for all the names of islands we have in the North / Waddensea. They are, from west to east: Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland, Schiermonnikoog.
Don't I miss Rottermeroog here?
@@williamwilting en......Rottemerplaat!
@@ronrots4423if I’m not mistaken, those are both uninhabited.
Voor spek en bonen meedoen (join for bacon and beans) is often used while playing a boardgame, and for example a very young child wants to join in, he can play for bacon and beans. It means he participates but can not lose or win.
Or for example while playing a poker game at home with inexperienced players, you may play a practice round with no real bets and nothing to win; it’s for bacon and beans.
Im half Duch and half American, and its always hillarious to mess with relatives on both sides with Dutch and American English. By the way with the amount of Dutch related vidoes you've made; The Netherlands might as well adopt you😉🙃.
he already is adopted
I think we already kinda have adopted him. 😊
'Hoor' comes from the verb 'horen', to listen, so could be translated as 'you hear', or 'listen up'. Nothing wrong with that. A word I have more difficulty with is 'kont'. This is best translated as 'arse', and is not gender specific; we all have one. But it sounds so much like the English 'c' word that I have difficulty in saying it, even though my Dutch friends say it all the time and it isn't considered particularly rude. I have no difficulty with 'mierenneuker', which is a great word and should be adopted into English without delay. Another favourite of mine is the verb 'ijsberen', literally 'to polar bear', i.e. to walk up and down with a worried look on your face like a polar bear in a zoo.
Yeah, hoor kind of translates to "I hear ya", in that context. So sort of as in: Yes (answering your question), I hear you (but I understand you asking).
The funny thing about "hoor" is that if you read and pronounce it the English way, you already say the Dutch cognate translation of the word it sounds like in English, which in Dutch is spelled with "oe" instead of "oo".
English has also strange expressions: It is raining cats and dogs.
Some other funny Dutch words/expressions:
*Schapenwolkjes: little sheep clouds: those little white fluffy clouds in a beautiful blue sky
* als de kat van huis is, dansen de muizen op tafel: if the cat is not at home, the mice danse on the table
* hoge bomen vangen veel wind: tall trees catch a lot of wind
* daar heb ik geen kaas van gegeten: I didn't eat cheese from that: I don't know anything about that
* Wat heb ik nu aan mijn fiets hangen? What is hanging from my bicycle? : Something unexoected happened
"Horen" means "to hear" and "to listen" is "luisteren" - two essentially different processes. As to "kont" I have always wondered how either we or the French have swapped words versus anatomy - rectal and female frontal anatomic openings.
With regard to the 'c/k' word, I think that this is a generic old English word for a narrow opening or crack. For example, the narrow arrow slits in a mediaeval castle were called by this word. So it could be used to describe either of these things.@@jpdj2715
Now breaks my wooden shoe!
Fun fact: if you go to a parts store and you ask for a dustsuckersnake, they won't look at you in a weird way.
I have heard this exact list before in a different video, maybe on her channel? :P
YES! I remember your reaction about the angelpiss! :D
There are many idioms about cheese, horses and windmills.
And to a lesser extent indeed also cheese.
@@MarcelNL On the other hand, if you would be asking the Dutch or better educated Belgians for a vacuümreiniger in the preparation phase of an exercise in a NATO context, they are more likely to think you have been sent on a fool's errand...
@@ThW5 There are many of those. Aardbeientrapje (strawberry ladder) for instance.
The funniest Dutch word is: Huttentuttententententoonstelling 😂 Dutchies knows exactly what i mean 😂
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Oh my god. Your face Paul. This was hilarious. I know the Dutch language is a bit strange and difficult, but the way you reacted. Epic 🤣🤣
English is strange and difficult, rather. It's not even phonetic.
the origin of "Kinderkopjes: The name for the cobblestone is literally a size. As large as the head of a small child. In ths south of the country and in Flanders, the name is not (or barely) used and they are called Kassei (plural: kasseien)
Met je neus in de boter vallen: There have been several times in Dutch history in which butter was something only for the welathy and upper class. So if one fell with their nose into butter, they clearly were lucky people.
Pissen: It actually does translate from English to Dutch. Pissen is used, it is considered slang but I have said "Ik mot ff pissen (I have to go piss real quickly) often enough
That entire line with the exception of "ik" is basically "alternative Dutch". mot is slang for moet (in this case, "een mot" would be " a moth" as in the animal) ff is shorthand for "even" which in this case means "quickly/in a hurry" but the everday meaning is "in a bit/while" or "for a short time" depending on it's use. Even is also the Dutch word for ... even (as in odds and evens)
Op die fiets: Did you know we have no idea etymological speaking where "fiets" is originating from? Some suggestions are: 1. Derived from the French word Velocipede, 2. From South Limburgian dialect Vietse which means, or at least used to mean quick walking/running, 3. From the name of a smith/bike rental in Wageningen called Ellie Viets, 4: From the name of a bycicle club from Apeldaoor "La Vitesse" or (my favorite)5: an onomatopoeia from "the sound it makes when using it.. being fts". We do know it originiated somewhere in the 1860's.
Another popular one with fiets is "Ga toch fietsen" ("just go cycling" as a variant of the English "ah f off")
Op je klompen aanvoelen: Doesn't it make sense? If you can feel it in your clogs (a footwear putely made as protection for your feet), it must have been very very obvious what you stepped in. Also, clogs are made of wood, wood works with weather. So farmers could feel with their clogs what kind of weather they could expect. Clogs feel different in summer then they do in winter, different in rain then in dry. So if your toe freezes off because it is so dang cold, you could have felt that upfront when putting your clogs on your feet.
Spek en bonen: similar to the butter example but the other way around. Bacon and beans were the cheapest forms of food in most of Dutch history. The boar has been part of Dutch nature since long before we got here. Pork (and in extension bacon) have been primary food sources forever. Therefor if you participated in something and the price was bacon and/or beans, the price was pretty worthless.
They also used to smuggle butter between Belgium and the Netherlands during WWII. People even got shot for it.
het is met je gat in de boter vallen lol...
Kinderkopjes isn't often used in the North either
@@dark-angel1784 ze zijn beide in gebruik. maar neus is het origineel. Het komt uit een stuk van Bredero uit 1613.
wellicht eerst voortaan even checken voordat je het "beter weet"
@@joriskuipers4112 Ik weet niet man, ben maar een Utrechter, wat weet ik nou van het Noorden. Heb persoonlijk nog nooit Kasseien gehoord in Utrecht of Noord Holland. Kan niet spreken over Groningen en Friesland, hoe noemen ze het daar? Geen Kasseien iig.
"voor spek en bonen meedoen" usually is used when a to young kid wants to join a game for higher age. The grown-up people would say it to the elder kids and then it means: let him join and let the little kid think he is participating the game. So like with monopoly: give the kids some money, throw the dice, walk around the board.
A "legend" of ladybug is that in medieval time a man was about to be executed by beheading. But just before the chop he said stop because there was a bug on his neck. He takes the bug and places it on a bush. And comes back for the beheading. His compasion compells his executioners to set him free. And he thanks the bug.
And the bug must be sent by god.
So the bug is called "dear lords creature" ( lieve heers beestje)
And I do not know whether there is an English variant of this story, but the Lady in Ladybug is His Mother, Mary.
Nooit geweten, leuk verhaal.,, Je bent nooit te oud om te leren,,,,,, of,,,,,, beter laat dan nooit,,,,, ben bijna 80!!!
As early as the first century AD, Pliny wrote about donkeys that did not want to walk over a bridge when they saw the water through it; they must then be guided. In this sense, the mnemonic is a difficulty that can be solved with a little trick.
Love your enthousiasm and interest Combustible! 👍
‘Ja hoor’ contextually best translates to ‘sure’
Or yeah right, yeah-ja right-hoor
Hoor is like “ sure”
That’s correct, and ‘nee, hoor’ is more like ‘not really’
As regards to the pissen/ plassen thing (pissing/ peeing), there's another Dutch saying: Toen piesen plassen werd, begon het gezeik. It basically translates to: "When pissing became peeing, the bullshit started." Kind of an early anti-woke/ PC joke I suppose. Only in Dutch, gezeik, or zeiken, is another word for pissing (pissen/ piesen).
Early anti woke....wow, well said indeed!
Not totally true. I'm german , but this word was/is normal im my lokal dialekt. That died in the last decades killed by four hundred years of prussian laws and high dutch speakers moving in.
When I have to go realy bad I still use the word piesen. I'm not woke I'm an antique ( I'm 60)😂
@@sylviasmits9275 deze leeftijdsgenote drukt dat net iets anders uit, "ik moet dringend naar mijn eigen gezeik luisteren"...
@@ingeposch8091 Zo heb ik ooit eens tegen mijn wiskundeleraar gezegd dat ik naar de wc moest. LOL
Ezel (donkey or ass) is also a derogatory term for someone who is dumb. An ezelsbruggetje therefore is an aid to help dumb down difficult information (to bridge the knowledge gap, so you will). Originally the term was used for Euclid's theorem Pons asinorum, which generally speaking is translated Bridge of asses in English. In Dutch the phrase evolved beyond a single theorem or a single subject.
Yeah like a bridge even a creature as dumb as a donkey can cross.
Here's another one "Ben je van de pot gerukt?" which literally translates to "Have you been pulled off the shitter?" it means "are you crazy/insane?" usually said when someone is really angry at you.
Hoor is like hear . Ja hoor is yes i hear you. You can say Ja ik hoor je.
oh i forgot something I know you like paintings from old dutch painters ...like Pieter Bruegel
Dutch Proverbs is an oil painting from 1559, painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting shows at least 125 Dutch proverbs and sayings that were common at the time. Some are still used today.
Ook een leuke, "De kat in de zak kopen" it means you bought something but wasn't what you expected it was
Falling with your nose in the butter-->Being at the right place at the right time.
Falling with you nose in the butter is better than falling on the kinderkopjes
18:02 rewatching this funny reaction and yes, you are right... we Dutchies also love our windmills... "Hij/zij heeft een klap van de molen gehad" He/she has been hit by a windmill... when you talk to your friends about that particulair person who is the crazy one.. or when boss tells to make an impossible job to finnish, you tell your coworkers, well boss has had a klap van de molen gehad.. Knocked his head, concussion, brain stopped functioning properly
'Falling with your nose in the butter.' is like 'The cat that fell into the cream bowl.'
Hoor can also mean listen or horen listening
Your reactions are hilarious. Keep on being you Highly
Your reactions make my day Highly.
Thanks for these eighteen minutes of pure entertainment; I can't remember the last time I've had to laugh so hard over someone's reactions. It really made me stop and think about my native tongue. And how about "muggenziften", or "to filter mosquitoes?" ;)
Platypus = in Dutch vogelbekdier
Vogel~bek~dier translated in English bird~beke~animal
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klompen aanvoelen? it means that when you use clocks it's hurts the top of you're feat....making contact to the wood(en shoe)
Het op je klompen aanvullen. To feel it in your clogs. Remember the Star Trek episode Relics? In which Scotty says that he could tell what's wrong with the ship or how fast it was going, just bij the floorplates? It's an old farmers thing as far as I know. They could tell bad weather was comming and such
I like your comment about this video, I have seen it earlier. You made me laugh. Greetings, Roelof.
In the weather forecast in winter they often say 'frost at clogs' hight. That means it's below freezing at about 10cm hight.
I like your video's keep it up man!
This one was a little tough to get through because I felt like she needed a lot of words to not say that much.
Op die fiets = On that Bicycle... a bit in the style of "Oh, so that's how you're riding, in that way. Now I've got ya!"
The other way around it's the same thing, I am in the US for 27 years now.. the first year or two I always had to grin when I heard the word 'cut' ... and then at some place I worked the word lull was used at times for stuff.. Once I responded with "It's better to lull on a staircase then to staircase on a lull" ... After people looking puzzled I said "I can't translate it really well except literally .. it's a dutch thing." (Oh and there are more of those words.. if you start thinking... same with license plates haha)
Haha that reminds me of my dad who hardly knew English at all and went on a trip to Londen. He saw a barbershop which had window advertisement saying Super Cut! He loved it and said I want to go here. He had to hear it for years.
I would translate "hoor" as y'hear. Literally it is the same it adds extra depth to what you say.
Yes, ya hear. That was it!
Hoor means something like “hear this” in its use it’s kinda comparable to “sure” and “ya hear” or “you know” combined.
What do you add to the original video?
Eva is awesome ❤
Hond in de pot, comes out of the 16th/17th century. When the rests of diner would be fed to the dogs in the large manors. So to find the dog in the pot.. means you're too late mate. The dog got all the left overs...
With the idioms you must understand that some have been around for years and years. "To fall with your nose in the butter" originates from the 1700's. It sounds weird nowadays, but back then, during lent people were not allowed to eat meat and dairy, products but wealthy people could buy a permit to eat it. Those were called "boterbrief" (butter letter) and since butter and meat were really luxurious products back then, it kind of meant you were lucky enough and this then translated to "fall with your nose in the butter." In some parts of the country it was said you fell with your arse in the butter, this is the idiom in Belgium, met uw gat in de boter vallen.
The Netherlands was and sometimes still is a swampy country. A farmer had to explore his land, step by step. His clogs were the compass. An experienced farmer sensed whether he could take one more step before he sank.
If something goes wrong, you don't feel it right. You should have seen it coming.
Got to paint it on, got me 🤣🤣🤣
The 'hoor' expression/addition to a sentence is derived from the term 'to hear' in the sense of 'understand' or 'notice' and serves as a affirmation of the previous used word or sentence.😁
back in the day butter whas very expensive and a delicatie, so a face full of butter was heaven
8:01 ooh you in english speaking haave "Daddy Longlegs" funny name for a spider.. that one in Dutch is Hooiwagen Haywagon, but I think in old days it be Haypile with the roof on it..
11:04 ..when the positive comes truly un expected... like you think you gonna fall, break your nose on the floor, but hey!! You fell in butter, nose thill works :D
Purely by coincidence a couple of years ago, I was walking outside with a good friend, and we saw a lieveheersbeestje, a ladybug. And then I said: that would sound weird in English: a dear lord’s beastie. After that we laughed out loud.
Wow, never realised. "ja, hoor". "Hoor" is primarily the first person, current tense of the verb "horen" (to hear). Not sure how it ended up in the expression as "Yes, hear" (but could imagine how it is a shortening)
Yes, we are crazy people and we will make an idiom about you some day.... "Bij Highly in de schuur zijn de videos niet duur" meaning "At Highly in the shed the videos are not expensive". No, sounds better in Dutch 😂
To fall with your nose = ergens heerlijk van genieten. Lekker eten of een lekker glaasje wijn❤
Mierenneuker can be directly translated as 'nitpicker' ;)
Mannen gebruiken dit woord meer dan vrouwen,,,,, it's not ladylike,,,,, 🎉is niet zo netjes om te zeggen
6:00 There's also "ezelsoor" (donkey's ear), meaning a fold made in a page of a book to easily find it back later. I think it's called a dog's ear in English?
7:40 I'd say "beestje" could be translated to "bug" in this case (we don't have a word like that specifically for insects). There are some regional variants as well, in Rotterdam they call it "kapoentje" for example, which literally means little capon (castrated rooster).
In the past, the word boterbrief (butter letter) was used jokingly for a certain type of "indulgence letters".
An indulgence (Latin: indulgentia) is a remission before God of temporal punishment (penance) derived from the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.
These letters gave permission to eat butter, cheese, eggs and meat during the fast days.
The common people were not allowed to use butter during the fasting days because it was too luxurious. That's why those who were allowed to do so were in luck.
Today the word boterbriefje means marrigecertificat
To feel it on your clogs - it’s something so obvious you could feel through your wooden shoes. Like ‘that should not be a mystery to anyone’ Weirdly simultaneously it refers to feeling intuitively. You should have felt (intuitively) it coming it’s so obvious.
Hilarious those reactions 😂😂😂😂
Love how your face turned as red as your shirt. Very amusing!
i used a nice idiom today. i wrote to a friend nu breekt mijn klomp (now my clog ik breaking which means you encounter something unexpected) im disabled and have a cat plus 2 cats from the neighbours visit me on a daily bases. the dutch dierenbescherming (aspca for the netherlands) has a service where a volonteer comes to you to help out with pet related stuff. so i have a buddy who comes and washes out the litterbox once a week ( i keep up with clearing the dirt out through the week) today she though what has she done with the box now cause it was very heavy when she opened it we found out a neighbour cat has choosen the litterbox as his favorite sleeping spot. we couldnt stop laughing. so i didnt find a dog in the pot but a cat in the litterbox
Mierenneuker is used among friends. Correcting eachother. Always with a smile
The alternative is "muggenzifter", both meaning the person is extremely precise and correcting everything someone else preannounces.
😂😂😂 so cool to see this about the sentences and meanings!
The clogs thing is, if bad and cold weather is incoming, the wood would expand. You'll feel it on your feet.
You're so right on the "klompen" the are thick, and no you would not feel it. And that is exactly the point! "Op je klompen aanvoelen" means something is SO obvious, you could have/should have seen it coming. Like, "even if you wore "klompen" you would stil feel it/know it. It's THAT obvious.
Meaning of "You can feel that on your clogs": "That is so obvious that you should have known it or you should have seen it coming" (association: Clogs are very simple / crude shoes. So if you can feel it on you clogs, it is really obvious and predictable...)
‘On that bike’ it’s like on that other specific bike and not the one I was thinking about first. (So it’s a different thing as what it appeared to be first and now I got it)
Ja hoor = yeah sure.
Wat hoor ik? = What do I hear?
Dat hoort zo = It's supposed to be like that.
How about this one: Dat slaat als een tang op een varken" (also: "dat slaat nergens op") = that makes no sense.
2:46 There are video's of Dutch learners who can't pronounce uu and thus talked about paying the hore (hoer) when they ment rent (huur).
Everyone makes such mistakes, especialy in foreign languages. I once accidentally used sensual instead of sensitive. I knew it was something with to sense, but guessed the wrong one.😅
He got a cookie of his own dough!
Let's turn this around. Try and explain to the Dutch "It's raining cats and dogs'. The Dutch will look at you and think "you're nuts".
11:50 Well Patricia Paay had a different thought about that😂
Can't say too much.
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The word "hoor", can be a verb which translates to "hear".
"Ik hoor haar" means "I hear her"
But there is also the 2nd meaning of "hoor" which can be used to put emphasize on it
"Ik hoor haar echt wel hoor" meaning "I really DO hear her" or "Listen to me! I DO hear her!" or "Hear me out! I do hear her!"
Op je klompen aanvoelen: klompen (wooden shoes) are related to being logical, simple and practical. So, to feel it coming on your wooden shoes, means: it is very logical that this would happen . . . You could see it coming.
In my hometown a ladybug or lieveheersbeestje is called 'kukeluusje'. I like that word better (and it's shorter 😊)
If you take dutch idioms too literal, and imagine the situation, it might make sense. Imagine a rainy day, people walk outside through the mud and suddenly they find a stone in the mud. They felt that stone through the clocks, even when the clocks are so thick as can be.
3:47 My great-aunt had a Spanish neighbour who could not pronounce the UU, quite right. If she would say the rent (huur) was high, she would say it like a h**ker was expensive with an OE. I can imagine the discomfort of almost wh*re.
hoor is just listen in dutch, we put it after something to make it a little stronger.
horen is listening, hoor is the single form of that.
lady bug is lieveheersbeestje , sweet lords creature, but in my dutch dialect, accent, slang ( east of the netherlands ) it is called zonnekoekje ( suncookie )
"Tweede leg" that Ava translates as second lay, does not reference getting laid but the laying of eggs by birds in potentially a new nest. The ambiguity that Ava's English translation may have is not present in Dutch.
Im a south african and speak fluent afrikaans. Similar to dutch. We also have a lot of words translated into english is hard to do. Eg: babalaas means hangover. Too funny
We pave our roads with the skulls of the children of our enemy's MOHAHAHAHA.
but we are really nice.
Alternative for mierenneuker: muggenzifter! (putting mosquitoes through a sieve) But trust me mierenneuker is so totally normal to say. Fun videos guys! Love from Holland.
anoth version of Mierenneuker ( AntF**ker) is Nietjes hergebruiker translated to Staples re-user and Punaise poetser translates to thumbtag pollisher.
My favorite is 'sorry hoor' - which translates to a sarcastic 'well I'm so sorry(not)' 😂😂
Or as Americans would say: well Excuuuuuuuuse me! 🤣🤣
Next level will be a video showing me as a dutch watching an american watching an american talking about the dutch.
Met de mond vol tanden staan
(To sit with your mouth full of teeth)
Meaning to be speechless.
op zijn tandvlees lopen (to walk on one’s gums), meaning to be exhausted. And the list goes on 😂
Dat kon je op je klompen aanvoelen (You could have felt that on your clogs). Keeping in mind that clogs were made for farmers and fishermen to not feel or get hurt bij hard or sharp objects, the meaning of the idiom becomes quite clear. Something was so obvious that was going to happen, that even on/through your clogs you could have felt it.
"Unfortunately, peanut butter." means that sucks.
I'm somewhat familiar with the term 'kinderkopjes', which doesn't make very much sense to me as a Dutch guy either. I believe the people in my enviroment, which is another part of the country than Ava has been living, call these things 'klinkers' (plural form of 'klinker'). I'm not sure how to properly translate this, but I think it has something to do with the clunking sounds the tires of cars make when driving over them. There is also the reason that it's not easy to translate this properly, because the word 'klinker(s)' is a homonym that can also be used to mean 'vowel(s)'. However, that meaning has nothing to do with this. There is yet another name for these stones that both the Dutch and Flemish people are familiar with, in particular those who have an interest in on-road bicycle racing, and that term is 'kasseien' (which I can't translate at all.
The term 'kinderkopjes' only refers to the size of these stones - as small as children's heads -, but I understand how weird and morbid it sounds to people speaking other languages as their native language.
One other thing on that phrase with the cheese involved. In most cases, if someone is not referring to themselves, this means something like 'You don't know how to do that, now do you' or 'You don't know anything about this'. It has a rather negative tone to it in cases like this. But in a more neutral way, you could also say about yourself that you don't have the particular knowledge needed for the subject in question.
I've got another one for you. "Oh, jij hebt stront aan de knikker." This is a kind of slang, and t sentence literally means "Oh, you've got shit on the marble." The 'marble' actually refers to your head in a way (it's round), but more specifically to your mind. In more proper English this would mean something like "Now you got a serious problem on your hands/mind" or "You're in trouble, man", depending on the situation.
Can you give us Dutch people some examples of some things that people speaking English would say, but would get weird reactions on from us Dutch speakers, if you can think of any?
Faling with your nose in the butter stems from a time were Butter was a luxury item. So a negative (faling) gains you a positive (butter)
My favoriete literal translation of a dutch saying is:" Unfortunately peanut butter" Witch means: You are fresh out of luck
I have been here 16 years. Ik ben nu 16 jaar hier in Zwolle. Je kunt niet geloof hoe veel Engels swear words , ik spreek bijna gewoonlijke ik nog steeds en dutch word read in Engelse Eerste. Hoor!
as a flemish (dutch speaking Belgian) dude I'm also learning new stuff ....
He soundth juft like Mike Thython...
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