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In het café

Two friends order in a café — one knows exactly what she wants.

Words

59

Sentences

16

Words per sentence

3.7

in the vocabulary

100 %

measured level

A1

Reading time

1 min

Grammar in this text

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• Ik wil graag een koffie

  You order with willen: Ik wil graag een koffie. The graag makes it polite, like “I would like”. Kunnen, moeten, willen, mogen →

• Ik heb geen honger

  Before a noun with no article it is geen, not niet: Ik heb geen honger. “I am not hungry” is “I have no hunger”. Negation with niet and geen →

• Wat wilt u drinken · betaal jij

  The waiter says u (Wat wilt u drinken?), the friends say jij. English “you” does both jobs. u or je: how to address people →

The words from A1 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 13 of the 34 words in this text are at A1 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

• alstublieft

  please (formal); here you are

  A1

• betalen

  to pay

  A1

• de honger

  the hunger

  A1

• de kip

  the chicken

  A1

• de koffie

  the coffee

  A1

• de melk

  the milk

  A1

• de soep

  the soup

  A1

• de thee

  the tea

  A1

• drinken

  to drink

  A1

• eten

  to eat

  A1

• goed

  good; well

  A1

• goedemiddag

  good afternoon (from noon)

  A1

• lekker

  tasty; nice, pleasant

  A1

The word lists for this text

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The verbs on this page, in every form: willen · hebben · betalen

Comprehension questions

3 questions on the text. With each answer the sentence it comes from appears — a question whose answer you cannot find in the text tests nothing.