Happy Halloween!

Posted by: americancloggie in vocabulary, learn dutch, Dutch traditions on Nov 01, 2009

Another Halloween has come and gone, for those of us who celebrate it. But, just for fun, here is a mini Dutch/English dictionary of Halloween vocabulary! To hear the pronunciations, go to Acapela Group , select the voice of either "femke" or "Max," type or copy and paste the text into the text box, and press "say it."

 skeleton - (het) skelet

pumpkin - (de) pompoen

ghost - (de) geest

spooky - spookachtig

spider - (de) spin

cobweb - (het) spinnerag

witch - (de) heks

vampire - (de) vampier

werewolf - (de) weerwolf

candy - snoep

October - oktober

monster - (het) monster

bat - (de) vleermuis

scary - enge

full moon - (de) volle maan

mummy - (de) mummy

autumn - herfst

costume - (het) kostuum

owl - (de) uil


night - (de) nacht


dark - donker


broom - (de) bezem


cat - (de) kat or (de) poes


tombstone - (de) grafsteen


graveyard - (de) begraafplaats


scarecrow - (de) vogelverschrikker

 


Comments (3)Add Comment
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written by KarinKirk31, May 24, 2010
The loans are essential for people, which would like to ground their company. By the way, this is not very hard to receive a secured loan.
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written by americancloggie, March 05, 2010
Transparent Language's Dutch Blog at http://www.transparent.com/dutch/ and Dutch Word of the Day at http://dwotd.web-log.nl/dutch_word_of_the_day/ are also great sources
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written by S. Tan, November 08, 2009
Thanks! Very interesting way of learning Dutch and helpful!

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