Basic Dutch in 30 Days: Home
Untimed topic quiz: 10 questions on Home, with an explanation after each answer. Questions and answers are shuffled every time.
Day 9: Home
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Question 1 of 10
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Answer: B. the kitchen
De keuken is the kitchen. It is not a cake: cake is taart or cake in Dutch.
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Question 2 of 10
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Answer: C. de slaapkamer
Slapen means “to sleep”, so de slaapkamer is the bedroom.
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Question 3 of 10
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Answer: C. zijn
Use er zijn for more than one thing: Er zijn twee badkamers.
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Question 4 of 10
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Answer: A. is
Use er is for one thing: Er is een tuin.
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Question 5 of 10
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Answer: C. the sofa
In a home, de bank is the sofa. The same word also means a bank for money.
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Question 6 of 10
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Answer: D. de stoelen
Most nouns add -en in the plural: stoel → stoelen. All plurals use de.
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Question 7 of 10
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Answer: A. Is er een balkon?
In a question, the verb comes first: Is er een balkon? Use is (not zijn) for one thing.
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Question 8 of 10
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Answer: D. There is no garden.
The text says “er is geen tuin”: there is no garden. There is a balcony and the apartment is small.
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Question 9 of 10
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Answer: D. Two
Twee slaapkamers = two bedrooms. In Dutch, kamers counts the living room and the bedrooms, not the kitchen: three rooms in total.
Transcript
Ons huis heeft drie kamers: een woonkamer en twee slaapkamers. Er is ook een keuken.
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Question 10 of 10
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Answer: A. A big balcony
Lisa says nee (no garden), “maar er is een groot balkon”: but there is a big balcony.
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Mark: Is er een tuin?
Lisa: Nee, maar er is een groot balkon.
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