Learn how to introduce members of your family
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| Hi everyone, I'm Thomas. |
| Hallo daar, ik ben Thomas. |
| Welcome to another Dutch whiteboard lesson. |
| In this lesson, you'll learn how to introduce your family members in Dutch. |
| Let's get started. |
| Okay, let's look at the vocabulary. |
| Here I've set out the structure of the nuclear family in terms of how each member relates |
| to one another. |
| At the top, we have the parents, moeder or mother, vader or father, moeder, moeder, vader, |
| Now, if the parents are a married couple, they will also be a wife and husband. |
| vrouw, wife, man, husband. |
| vrouw, vrouw, man, man. |
| Let's look at the children. |
| dochter or daughter, zoon or son, dochter, dochter, zoon, zoon. |
| Daughter and son are, of course, also each other's siblings. |
| zus or sister, broer or brother, zus, zus, broer, broer. |
| You can now place yourself at any point within this family structure and refer to the other members. |
| Let's look at the dialogue. |
| Say two colleagues are chatting in an office and one notices a photograph on the other's desk. |
| Wie is dit? |
| Who's this? |
| Dit is myn vrouw. |
| This is my wife. |
| Wie is dit? |
| Dit is myn vrouw. |
| Now let's look at some more examples. |
| Dit is myn moeder. |
| This is my mother. |
| Dit is myn moeder. |
| Dit is myn dochter. |
| This is my daughter. |
| Dit is myn dochter. |
| As you can see, the sentence pattern for introducing a family member is straightforward. |
| Dit is myn family member. |
| Just as in English, this is my family member. |
| In Dutch, the standard words for wife and husband, vrouw and man, can also simply mean woman and man. |
| However, if you use the sentence pattern you've just learned, it will be clear to the listener that you are referring to your wife or husband. |
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