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Learn Dutch in Three Minutes #17

Taking a Holiday

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2 Grammar

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GRAMMAR

The focus of this lesson is using the verb "to go" in Dutch

Topic 1: How to use "to go"

Sentence from the lesson:

Waar ga je heen met vakantie?
"Where are you going for the holidays?"

1. Imagine someone asks you Waar ga je heen met vakantie? That means "Where are
you going for your holidays?" in the informal form. However, it literally means "Where
are you going with holidays?" So met is the correct preposition, and it means "with."

2. The answer could be:

Ik ga naar een ski resort.
"I'm going to a ski resort."
Ik ga naar een strand.
"I'm going to the beach."
So let's break down the first answer:
Ik ga, which is "I am going to." It is the present tense form of the verb gaan, "to go."
Naar, which means "to" in Dutch.
Ski resort which is a noun that means "ski resort."

3. So now, let's have a closer look at the prepositions you can use with gaan. For
instance, when you want to tell someone that you're going on a holiday, you would
say Ik ga op vakantie. "I'm going on a holiday." Op means "on." So we have seen how
you can use met ("with"), naar ("to"), and op ("on") with the verb gaan.

Language Tip

In Dutch if you want to ask where you and your friends are going, you should use "we." You'll
substitute the pronoun je with we or wij, which both mean "we." Waar gaan we heen? "Where
are we going?" The answer could be, for instance: We gaan naar het zwembad which is
"We're going to the pool." You can also make a more interrogative question by rephrasing the

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sentence like this: Gaan wij naar het zwembad? meaning "Are we going to the pool?"

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