Some good Dutch words
• Alstublieft — a hyper-polite word; socially useful...
• Basilicum — basil
• Gedogen — to actively tolerate...
• Landwinning translates into English as "reclamation," but that is a misnomer....
• Peperduur — "as expensive as pepper"...
• Roepnaam — your informal personal name...
• "Toch" serves as an all-purpose affirmation request. It implies (but does not insist) that the accompanying statement is agreeable.
• Toen — "when," in the past tense.
• Vanzelfsprekend — self-evident. Literally, "from self-speaking."
• Verwerken — to process thought...
• Wel — "indeed is..."
