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Dutch Fruits

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[a basket of fruits]
fruit click to hear
[four 'apples']
appels(apples)
appels
(de) appel
(de) aardappel
(de) sinaasappel
(de) granaatappel
hear 		(apples)
(apple)
(potato)
(orange)
(pomegranate)
 [apple]
(de) appel click to hear
the: de click to hear 2 / het click to hear 2 3 - 't click to hear ->>
Plurals always take 'de'
a: (een) - 'n click to hear / one: één click to hear 2 3

[apple]
(de) appel click to hear		 [apples]
appels click to hear		 [apples, one cut up]
appels click to hear		 [one pear]
(de) peer click to hear 2 3		 [pears, one cut open]
peren click to hear
[orange]
(de) sinaasappel click to hear		 [orange and tangerine]
(de) sinaasappel click to hear (het) mandarijntje click to hear		 [oranges]
sinaasappels click to hear		 [orange peel]
sinaasappelschillen click to hear
[oranges and tangerines]
sinaasappels en mandarijntjes click to hear		 [one lemon]
(de) citroen click to hear 2 		[lemons]
citroenen click to hear		 [limes]
'limoenen' click to hear
[a banana]
(de) banaan click to hear		 [bananas]
bananen click to hear		 [peaches]
perziken click to hear		 [pineapple]
(de) ananas click to hear
[cherries]
kersen click to hear		 [plums]
pruimen click to hear		 [plums]
pruimen click to hear		 [a few prunes (dried plums)]
gedroogde pruimen click to hear		 [grapes]
druiven click to hear
[red raspberries]
frambozen click to hear		 [a few blackberries]
bramen click to hear		 [strawberries]
aardbeien click to hear		 [blueberries]
bosbessen click to hear
[watermelon]
(de) watermeloen click to hear		 [watermelon cut open]
(de) watermeloen click to hear		 [stalks of rhubarb]
(de) rabarber click to hear
[a handful of raisins]
rozijnen click to hear		 [a handful of dried apricots]
(gedroogde) abrikozen click to hear		 [walnuts]
walnoten click to hear - 2 		[hazelnuts, filiberts]
hazelnoten click to hear - 2 		[almonds]
amandelen click to hear
[a handful of peanuts]
pinda's click to hear		 [radishes]
radijsjes click to hear		 [radishes]
radijsjes click to hear		 [pckles]
augurken click to hear
[an avocado]
(de) avocado click to hear		 [an avocado cut open, showing flesh and pit]
avocado click to hear		 [mangpoes]
mango's click to hear		 [grapefruit]
(de) grapefruit click to hear		 [pomegranate and coconut]
(de) granaatappel en (de) kokosnoot click to hear


een tros druiven click to hear 2 3 'a bunch of grapes'
rijp click to hear 2 'ripe' - (rijp/rijpe click to hear 2)
Zijn de perziken al rijp? click to hear 2 'Are the peaches ripe already?'
Ik ben bang dat de avocado's nog niet rijp zijn click to hear 2 'I'm afraid the avocados are not ripe yet'
Zijn de appels groen? click to hear 2 Are the apples green?
Zijn de bananen nog groen? click to hear Are the bananas still green?
Zijn de bananen al geel? click to hear 2 Are the bananas already yellow?
"Heeft U bananen?" - "Nee." click to hear "Do you have bananas?" - "No."
Er zijn geen bananen. click to hear There are no bananas.
"Heeft U sinaasappels?" - "Ja." click to hear "Do you have oranges?" - "Yes."
Er zijn wel sinaasappels. click to hear [But] we do have oranges.
(de) pit click to hear - stone, seed, pip, pit

(de) fruitmand click to hear ('basket of fruits' as often given to the sick)
Dutch fruit click to hear is the overall word for the items in this group of edible, usually sweet, originally seed-bearing plant products that were meant for propagation of the species but that are now mostly used for pleasurable human consumption. (One could argue that tomatoes and peppers are fruits and not vegetables.) The Dutch word for one of these items by itself is (de) vrucht click to hear - plural: vruchten click to hear 2 3 - English has 'fruit' and 'fruits' for all these words.
(het) vruchtensap click to hear 2 ('fruit juice')
(het) vruchtvlees click to hear 2 ['fruit-meat'] - 'pulp' - the solid, edible part of fruit
- vruchtbaar click to hear ('fertile')
"Aan de vruchten kent men de boom" click to hear 2
'By its fruit the tree is known' (Proverbs 9:17)

zoet click to hear (zoet/zoete click to hear 2) 'sweet'
zuur click to hear 2 (zuur/zure click to hear 2) 'sour; acid'
'Wild' click to hear wild / wilde click to hear can mean fruit growing 'in the wild,' not at a farm, greenhouse or in a garden.
Wilde aardbeien click to hear 'wild strawberries'

Dutch fruits words exercises
Flashcards: pictures - listening

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Gij zult niet stelen click to hear 'Thou shalt not steal'