Comments on: Some similarities between German and Dutch https://expatsincebirth.com/2014/01/06/some-similarities-between-german-and-dutch/ a blog by a multilingual lifelong expat/international, linguist, researcher, speaker, mother of three, living in the Netherlands and writing about raising children with multiple languages, multiculturalism, parenting abroad, international life... Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:47:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: expatsincebirth https://expatsincebirth.com/2014/01/06/some-similarities-between-german-and-dutch/#comment-27651 Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:44:52 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=2888#comment-27651 In reply to Troxel Ballou.

That’s great, Troxel. Thanks for sharing this. Indeed, the “vork–Gabel” seems not a match between German and Dutch. In Dutch you find the term “gaffel” for the pitchfork, which in German is called “die Forke” (or more common “Mistgabel”). The two terms have so to say switched their meaning in German and Dutch. – But on the other hand, the German “Besteck” is Dutch “bestek” 😉

]]> By: Troxel Ballou https://expatsincebirth.com/2014/01/06/some-similarities-between-german-and-dutch/#comment-27650 Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:23:34 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=2888#comment-27650 I got caught when I was in NL with a client and tried to parlay my German into Dutch. The conversation:
“Okay, in German, this knife is ‘das Messer’.”
–“We call the knife ‘het mes’.”
“Great, it’s clearly cognate. What about the spoon? I know ‘der Löffel’?”
–“In Dutch, it’s ‘de lepel’.”
“Okay, I’m on a roll. Rounding out the set (Besteck), what about die Gabel’?”
–“Ummm, that’s ‘het vork’.”
“Oh.”

]]> By: The Netherlands from a European perspective « expatsincebirth https://expatsincebirth.com/2014/01/06/some-similarities-between-german-and-dutch/#comment-10490 Tue, 06 May 2014 13:19:03 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=2888#comment-10490 […] People already fluent in German when learning Dutch need to be aware of false cognates (i.e. words that are phonetically similar but have different meanings): For example aandacht means “Aufmerksamkeit” (attention) in German, and the German “Andacht” means “devotion” etc. (please find my post about this here). […]

]]> By: Can we learn a new language only by listening? « https://expatsincebirth.com/2014/01/06/some-similarities-between-german-and-dutch/#comment-8044 Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:32:22 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=2888#comment-8044 […] Some similarities between German and Dutch […]

]]> By: ladyofthecakes https://expatsincebirth.com/2014/01/06/some-similarities-between-german-and-dutch/#comment-7652 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:45:46 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=2888#comment-7652 In reply to expatsincebirth.

Verkocht is also kinda mushy… I love the image 😉

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