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Dutch Pronounced!

Cautionary Note
It is of course interesting to know the correct ('Dutch') pronunciation of Dutch names, but in communicating with members of other language communities ('Barbarians') it may be more efficient to use the common modified ('corrupted') way of saying.

At the deli, will saying "Gouda" in the Dutch way get you the cheese you want, or had you better say it like English-speakers do?
Speaking of art, when you try to say "Van Gogh" like a Dutchman (Vincent van Gogh 2) instead of the usual way - 2 people might think you just came down with an acute case of strep throat.

In the movie 'Miracle on 34th Street' a little Dutch girl is brought to Santa Claus, and he is told she doesn't speak English. Not a problem for polyglot Santa - but then the Dutch in the audience will notice the little girl's thick American accent: it's not credible that she shouldn't speak English. For the Dutch any illusion of reality is shattered. No, Virginia. The Dutch Lines in the Movie.

Winter view from my window, ca. 1967 Full Size

Dutch In The News

Aart de Geus 2 3 Synopsis founder and chairman, IT businessman

(Patrick) Cammaert 2 retired Dutch general, member of UN Gaza enquiry commission

Louis van Gaal 2 soccer coach (the Dutch national team, Manchester United)

[Amira] Willighagen 2 young opera singer (first name not recorded)

Jeroen Dijsselbloem 2 European Union official, Dutch finance minister

Museums - (het) museum plural: musea (museum / musea ) /or/ museums 2 Het Rijksmuseum 2 3 (Amsterdam) het Stedelijk Museum 2 (Amsterdam) het Kröller-Müller Museum 2 often called: het Kröller-Muller Museum 2 (near the village of Otterlo in national park 'de Hoge Veluwe' 2 3)

The 2012 'Second Chamber' Elections

De Tweede Kamer 2 is is The Dutch 'House of Commons' or 'House of Representatives'
verkiezingen ('elections') - stemmen 2 ('to vote') the complete verb - More about Dutch Politics

Party Name, Party Leader	seats	Position - Website
Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD) Mark Rutte	41	conservative - >>
Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) 2 Diederik Samsom 2	38	labor - >>
Partij voor de Vrijheid Geert Wilders 2	15	right-wing, concerned about extremist tendencies in Islam - >>
Socialistische Partij 2 Emile Roemer	15	left-wing, grassroots; has never been in a government - >>
Christen-Democratisch Appèl (CDA) 2 Sybrand Buma 2 (Sybrand van Haersma Buma 2)	13	christian-democrats, centrist - >>
D66 - Democraten '66 2 Alexander Pechtold	12	used to be left-wing liberals - >>
Christen Unie 2 Arie Slob 2	5	christian, mixed on left/right - >>
Groen Links Jolande Sap 2 Bram van Ojik 2 - new party leader after the elections	4	left-wing, environmentalist - >>
Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij (SGP) Kees van der Staaij	3	orthodox protestant - >>
Partij voor de Dieren Marianne Thieme	2	animal rights - >>
50+ ('Vijftig-Plus') Henk Krol 2	2	older people, pensioners - >>
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more: Dutch government and elections - election results over the years - more recent election results

Tintin The characters in Hergé's Tintin comic albums have very different names in the Dutch versions of the books: Kuifje 2 Tintin - referring to his 'quiff' hairstyle - Bobbie 2 Snowy the dog Jansen en Janssens Thomson and Thompson, Dupont et Dupond

Diederik Stapel 2 disgraced psychologist Klaas Knot incoming president of the Netherlands Central Bank Nout Wellink 2 outgoing president of the Netherlands Central Bank new players in the national soccer team: (Georginio) Wijnaldum 2 Tim Krul Wouter Spoelman chess Grand Master - Dutch Chess Albert Heijn 2 the largest supermarket chain in Holland >>

Jan Gossaert 2	Gossart 2	Mabuse 2 - early Flemish painter >>

Problematic Brand or Product Names Fragrance Bang means 'afraid' in Dutch. False Friends Ben je bang? 'Are you afraid?' Coffee maker Keurig means 'proper, well-behaved' in Dutch. Een keurig meisje 'A well-behaved, proper girl' (everything her parents wanted.) Cell phone Kin means 'chin' in Dutch. [-discontinued?-] Music player Zune sounds very much like Dutch 'zoen' which means 'kiss' - exercise caution and be prepared for misunderstandings when communicating with the Dutch about it. [-discontinued-] In Dutch, the name of Google's online encyclopedia Knol - hear Dutch means 'nag, not a good horse.' [-discontinued-] Dating Website 'IJL' (It's Just Lunch) - Dutch ijl 2 3 means 'low air pressure, not solid: rarefied, thin.'

Golf player Louis Oosthuizen 2 (Dutch pronunciation; South African may say it slightly differently) Louis - oost (East) - huizen (houses)

Soccer World Cup 2010 - The Dutch Team Maarten Stekelenburg 2 Gregory van der Wiel 2 John Heitinga 2 Joris Mathijsen 2 Giovanni van Bronkhorst 2 Mark van Bommel 2 Dirk Kuyt 2 Nigel de Jong 2 Robin van Persie 2 Wesley Sneijder 2 3 Arjen Robben 2 Khalid Boulahrouz André Ooijer 2 Demy de Zeeuw 2 Edson Braafheid 2 Michel Vorm 2 Eljero Elia Stijn Schaars 2 Ibrahim Affelay Ryan Babel 2 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 2 Sander Boschker 2 Rafaël van der Vaart 2 Bert van Marwijk 2 (coach) names list from: FIFA.com oranje 2 orange voetbal soccer, 'European football' elftal [group of 11] team schot in eigen doel 'own goal' more Dutch soccer names - more Dutch sports names - Dutch sports words

The Dutch team will undoubtedly win medals at The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Hear the names of a few favorites: Sven Kramer - Bob de Jong - Simon Kuipers Ireen Wüst - Renate Groenewold - Margot Boer - Annette Gerritsen The Full Team

Spyker (also spelled Spijker) - Dutch car brand from the early days of the automobile, revived a few years ago and now buying Saab. Victor Muller is Spijker's CEO and its base of operations is in Zeewolde >> map

Jasper Schuringa tackled alleged Christmas plane bomber

Philippe** Herreweghe hear 2 3 - Belgian conductor (**his first name is French) - Dutch musicians - Dutch music vocabulary

Leo Beenhakker hear 2 - the coach of the Polish national soccer team - more Dutch soccer

The Age of Rembrandt - Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pages with More Dutch Names

Speaking Dutch

Old New York - Sailors and Ships of the 17th Century 170 Dutch and Flemish Painters - Vermeer's World - Rembrandt - Early Flemish Painters The Diary of Anne Frank - The Bridge too Far Hans Brinker - More Dutch Names from Books The Dutch in Sports - 'Dutch' Music - Tulip Names Maps of The Netherlands - Place Names - Names of Foreign Lands First and Last Names - Names and 'Old' Spelling

Parties and Party Leaders in the 2006 Elections

Services - Contact a Dutchman Manuscripts - Avoid incorrectly spelled, incorrectly capitalized or improbable Dutch names. I could prooofread your text. Voice-Overs - Dutch spoken narration for exhibitions, tours etc. Send your English, German or French text or a rough translation into English and I'll make you an offer. Dutch Accent for The Stage - Specializing in English with a Dutch accent for stage productions. - Pointers - Send me your text and I could give you an idea of how the Dutch speak English. I can also record my English with a Dutch accent for your movies etc. Listen to samples: 1 - 2 I also speak German and French with a Dutch accent; I cannot do English with German or French accent. Ich kann auch Deutsch mit Holländischen Akzent sprechen - zum Beispiel - 2 - 3 Moi, je peux parler Français avec l'accent Hollandais aussi - par exemple Contact a Dutchman

Gerard Carbo, 1977 (watercolor) Private Collection

Famous and Common Names

Nobel Prize winners ‑>>

Christiaan Eijkman - medicine, 1929 Peter Debye (Debije) - physics, 1936 Frits Zernike - physics, 1953 hear

Jan Tinbergen - economics, 1969 Simon van der Meer - physics, 1984 Paul Crutzen - chemistry, 1995 hear

Nicolaas Bloembergen 2 3 - physics, 1981 Gerard 't Hooft 2 3 4 - physics, 1999 Tini Veltman 2 - physics, 1999 Ben Feringa 2 3 - chemistry, 2016

potential future recipients: Bert Meijer - chemistry Erik Verlinde 2 3 - physics

more Dutch scientists Martinus Beijerinck 2 3 (1851-1931, virology) Hendrik Casimir 2 3 (1909-2000, physics)

Computer Scientists

Edsger Dijkstra 2 Andries van Dam 2 3		Guido van Rossum 2 Johan van Benthem 2		Rob van Glabbeek 2 3 Henny Sipma 2		Frits Vaandrager 2 3 Frans Kaashoek 2
Mariëlle Stoelinga 2 Herbert Bos 2		Bram Moolenaar 2 Marijn Heule 2 3		Bart Jacobs 2 3 Jaap Haartsen 2 3

Control Engineers

Amsterdam (A Pronunciation Guide)

Gebed zonder End 2 ('A prayer without end,' something that goes on and on) - also an Amsterdam street name.

Amsterdam tour guides sometimes come up with the Dutch tongue-twister
"Achtentachtig prachtige grachten" 2 - 88 wonderful canals.
A longer variation:
"Smachtend dacht ik aan de prachtige nachten tussen d(i)e achtentachtig grachten" 2
Full of longing I was thinking of the wonderful nights in the city of 88 canals.
De grachtengordel 2 - the canals belt
(de) rondvaartboot - tour boat (thank you Steve Random)
Amsterdam dentists

from a famous book:

The Scrounger Except for the man who thought the Amsterdam Sarpahtistraat the most beautiful spot in Europe, I've never known a more peculiar person than the scrounger.

Nescio: De Uitvreter >> Behalve de man, die de Sarphatistraat de mooiste plek van Europa vond, heb ik nooit een wonderlijker kerel gekend dan de uitvreter.

Billy Eric: Prinsengracht & Brouwersgracht © 2014 All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Billy Eric: Early Morning Amsterdam © 2007 All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Beer

When you like beer, you could try 'een stelletje:' 2 - a beer with next to it a shot glass of 'jonge jenever' (sometimes called 'Dutch gin,' but it's not sweet) - after sipping the jenever, the beer is very smooth and creamy (maybe it's the numbing effect of the jenever's 35% alcohol.) een stelletje jonge jenever hear

After a friend's home, (het) café 2 may be the best place for drinking beer in Holland. This is of course the French word for coffee but that's not the main attraction here. If it's especially cosy (gezellig 2 3 ‑>> ) it might be called a bruin café (bruin 2 = brown.) It may be clean, but it will not be a well-lighted place. (De) kroeg is mild slang for (het) café. more about drinks - eating and drinking

Billy Eric: A Beer between Songs © 2007 All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Historical artists, associated with the Mennonite/Doopsgezinde community
Karel van Mander Lambert Jacobsz Abraham van der Tempel Jan van der Heyden Govert Flinck Samuel van Hoogstraten hear	Jacob Adriaensz Backer Adriaen Backer Salomon van Ruysdael Isaac Ruisdael Jan Luyken Michel Jansz van Mierevelt Joanna Koerten hear	Vincent Laurens van der Vinne Hendrik Willem Mesdag Sientje Mesdag Anton Mauve (French name) Hercules Segers Crispijn de Passe Cornelius Coornhert hear
Menno Simons: 'De Stillen in den Lande' (The quiet ones in the country)
Dutch Baroque Artists
Rachel Ruysch Jan Commelin Judith Leyster Abraham Bloemaert Gerrit van Honthorst Dirck van Baburen Jan Lievensz hear	Jacob Backer Gerbrand van den Eeckhout Aert de Gelder Willem Buytewech Jan Molenaer Pieter Codde hear
17th Century Engravers and Painters	Three Great Masters and A Soccer Coach
Roelant Roghman Geertruydt Roghman Boetius Bolswert Jacob Matham (French name) hear	Jan van Huysum Willem Claesz. Heda Jan Jansz. den Uyl Guus Hiddink hear
20th Century Painters	Van Ruijven
Kees van Dongen Willem de Kooning Piet Mondriaan Karel Appel hear	Claes van Ruijven Pieter Claeszoon van Ruijven hear (Pieter C. was a Vermeer patron, bought more than 20 of his paintings.)
Some of The Contemporary Music Scene		(alternate)
Tijs (Thijs) Verwest (Tiësto) Ferry Corsten Armin van Buuren hear	Paul van Dyk Benno de Goeij Sander Kleinenberg Ilse de Lange hear - 2	Paul van Dyk Benno de Goeij Piet Bervoets Sander Kleinenberg hear - 2

Wageningen School of Agriculture buildings

Bicycling
fiets, fietser (bike, bicyclist) Rijwiel, wielrijder (bicycle, bicyclist) hear ('Wielrijder' is more formal and posh than 'Fietser'.)	Ga toch fietsen! - hear Literally: 'Go ride your bicycle, go biking!' but it also has a sense of 'I don't believe you!' - like 'Take a hike!' More Bicycle Words More Dutch Bicycling Dutch Bicycle Racers
Miscellaneous
Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977, philosopher) Dodewaard (small city in central Holland) Sjeng Schalken (tennis player; in 'Northern' and 'Southern' Dutch *) hear	Edsger Dijkstra (Computer scientist) Johan Cruyff (Soccer star) Max Euwe (Chess world champion 1935-1937) >> Richard Posthumus (If the Republican candidate for governor of Michigan had been a Dutchman, this is how his name would have been pronounced.) hear
Joop Zoetemelk (bicycle racer) Coosje van Bruggen (contemporary artist) Van Eyck (Eik, Eijck) Van Dijk (Dyck, to Eng. Dyke) hear	Wouter Bos (present leader of Dutch Labour party) Waterloo (Belgian locality, where Napoleon met his final defeat) Roosevelt, Van Buren (US presidents of Dutch descent, how their names would have been said in Holland) Maartje, Maertge (girls' names; Maertge (Vermeer's daughter in Tracy Chevalier's 'Girl with A Pearl Earring') is no longer used; I think it's an older, Flemish form) hear
Pieter Bruegel (16th century Flemish painter) (unusual UE pronunciation) Van der Heyden (17th century architecture painter) Neeltje Maria Min (20th century poet) Katje, Betje, Maasden (Dutch (?) Trixie Belden characters) hear	Ruud Lubbers (80s prime minister) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (NATO Secretary-General) Wim Duisenberg (former EU central bank president) Teun van Dijk (linguist) hear - 2
Nicolaas Spykman 2 (1893-1943, Professor of International Relations at Yale) Simon Luttichuys (17th Century painter) Nicolaas Spykman (see above) Paul van Dyk, Tiësto (DJ's) hear	Douwe Draaisma (historian of psychology) Gerard Unger (typographer) Aad de Mooy (contemporary composer) Robert van Wyck (19thC. New York mayor, as Dutch-Dutch) hear
Boudewijn (boy's name, Belgian King) Schuyler (Dutch-American boy's name) Genade ('mercy') hear ('Schuyler' is not found as a first name in Holland)	Van Beethoven 2 - the composer's Belgian grandfather's first name was Lodewijk
Marinus de Jonge (New Testament Scholar) hear	Andreas Cornelis 'Dries' van Kuijk (Probably) Elvis manager 'Colonel Parker' hear
Mostly Towns
's Gravenhage (The Hague) wielewaal (a bird: golden oriole) De Blauwe Kamer (lake) hear	Kamerijk (village) Wassenaar (town) Leiden (city) Merwede (part of the Maas river near Rotterdam) hear

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes 2 (mathematician, 1856-94, known for the Riemann-Stieltjes integral) Rem Koolhaas (architect) Abraham "Bram" Pais (particle physicist and historian of modern physics) ('Pais' is not originally a Dutch name, but we do have the word 'pais' in the expression 'Pais en vree' (very peaceful) - probably from French 'Paix' (peace.) Buys Ballot (19th Century scientist, best known for weather studies) (Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buijs Ballot ) Van Hiele (Dina van Hiele-Geldof, Pierre van Hiele - 'Pierre' is a French name) math educators: The Van Hiele Levels of students' geometric reasoning Hulshof 2 3 (how the name is said in Holland) Kenny Hulshof, 2008 Republican candidate for governor of Missouri Simon Vinkenoog Dutch poet and author Tijl Uilenspiegel Medieval prankster and folk hero - in Germany: Till Eulenspiegel Sjeng Scheijen 2 art historian, specializing in Russia Alkemade 2 - the Alkemade theorem in thermodynamics phase diagrams - (A.C.) Van Rijn van Alkemade 2 eigen (math term) mysterie (a mystery) Rijkswaterstaat (Government body managing water) Stormvloedwaarschuwingsdienst [high-winds flood warning service] a government department monitoring dangerous weather conditions and possible flooding Beemster Graskaas ("considered a special treat among Dutch cheese gourmets") made of the early Spring milk, from when the cows get out of the Winter stables into the meadows of young, fresh gras ('grass.') The 'Beemster' 2 is a 17th Century polder 2 ('reclaimed land.') >> Musschenbroek * 2 - Pieter van Musschenbroek 2 3 18th Century scientist (math, physics) - inventor of the Leyden Jar (Leidse Fles 2 3 - Dutch (de) fles means 'bottle') Boerhaave - Herman Boerhaave 2 18th Century scientist (medicine) 's Gravesande * 2 - Willem Jacob 's Gravesande 18th Century scientist (physics) Van Leeuwenhoek 2 - Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek 17th Century scientist, inventor of the microscope Huygens 2 - Christiaan Huygens 17th Century scientist Simon Stevin 17th Century scientist

Garden Dutch 101
Scheepers (well-known bulb brokers)
Keukenhof (famous Dutch bulb display gardens)
Jelena de Belder (Jelena is a Slovene (Slavic) name, hope I got it right) (a cultivated witch hazel tree is named after her)
Estella Rijnveld, Stella (Estella is a Spanish name, Stella is the Dutch version) (name of a tulip)
J.S. Dijt (name of an early-blooming iris)
Welwitsch (German)(nineteenth-century botanist for whom Welwitschia is named)
Ghislaine de Feligonde (French)(name of a rose)
hear
more tulip names

Zomerschoon 2 ('Beauty of Summer,' a 1620s tulip)
(de) zomer ('Summer') - schoon ('beauty' - though in Northern Dutch it now usually means 'clean')

A Small Fruit Song "Said the Apple to the Orange, ..."
framboos, braam (raspberry, blackberry)
aalbes, kruisbes (red currant, gooseberry)
aardbei, rozebottel (strawberry, rose hip)
sinaasappel, citroen (orange ('China-apple'), lemon)
kers, pruim (cherry, plum/prune)
perzik, abrikoos (peach, apricot)
hear
more fruit names

Carel Fabritius, The Goldfinch (1654) Mauritshuis, The Hague

Birds of Holland vogels (birds) Carel Fabritius 't Puttertje (the Goldfinch) Mauritshuis hear - 2 zwaluw (swallow) vink (finch) nachtegaal (nightingale) duif (dove) zwaan (swan) hear merel (blackbird) lijster (thrush) specht (woodpecker) roodborstje (robin) eend (duck) hear spreeuw (starling) mus (sparrow) hear havik (hawk) uil (owl) koekoek (cuckoo) raaf (raven) kraai (crow) hear adelaar, arend (eagle) ooievaar (stork) reiger (heron) meeuw (seagull) gier (vulture) (vleermuis (bat)) hear more birds

More Dutch names:
First and Last Names - Place Names - Vermeer's World - Rembrandt - 17th Century Sailors and Ships - Old New York

The National Gallery, London

Somewhat Related I used to subscribe to a magazine in basic Spanish, in an attempt to learn that language; what I remember best was an article about Van Gogh that curiously gave the title of a painting in English ("Sunflowers"); I guess that makes more sense than to have them in Dutch, but why not in Spanish ('Las Flores del Sol')? - Wenceslao Grillo tells me that the Spanish word is Girasol ("turn-flower,") and the Van Gogh painting is called Los Girasoles in Spanish. That word wouldn't make sense to a beginning student of Spanish. - Thank you Wenceslao for ongoing corrections. VOICE-OVERS Dutch spoken narration for exhibitions, tours etc. Send your English, German or French text or a rough translation into English and I'll make you an offer. DUTCH ACCENT for the stage Specializing in Dutch accent for stage productions. Pointers Send your text and I could give you an idea of how it's spoken with a Dutch accent. I can also record my English with a Dutch accent for your movies etc. MANUSCRIPTS Avoid incorrectly spelled, incorrectly capitalized or improbable Dutch names. I could prooofread your text. Contact a Dutchman

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