All 50 Uses of
Dutch
in
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl
- They gave me a beautiful book, Dutch Sasas and Lesends, but they gave me Volume II by mistake, so I exchanged two other books for Volume I. Aunt Helene brought me a puzzle, Aunt Stephanie a darling brooch and Aunt Leny a terrific book: Daisy Goes to the Mountains.†
Chpt 42-06
- Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, when he became the Managing Director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.†
Chpt 42-06
- It's not the fault of the Dutch that we Jews are having such a bad time.
Chpt 42-06 *Dutch = the people of the Netherlands
- A typically Dutch, very steep, ankle-twisting flight of stairs also runs from the front part of the house to another door opening onto the street.†
Chpt 42-07
- Please bear in mind, Kitty, that the two ladies speak abominable Dutch (I don't dare comment on the gentlemen: they'd be highly insulted).†
Chpt 42-09
- Whenever I quote Mother or Mrs. van Daan, I'll write proper Dutch instead of trying to duplicate their speech.
Chpt 42-09Dutch = the language of the people of the Netherlands
- Pim (that's our pet name for Father) wants me to help him with his Dutch lessons.
Chpt 42-09
- I sometimes listen to the Dutch broadcasts from London.†
Chpt 42-09
- Not exactly a born debater, she continued her magnificent account in a mixture of German and Dutch, until she got so tangled up in her own words that she finally rose from her chair and was just about to leave the room when her eye fell on me.
Chpt 42-09Dutch = the language of the people of the Netherlands
- Payment in the form of tutoring, e. g., Dutch.
Chpt 42-11
- Mrs. D. was trying to do everything at once: learning Dutch out of a book, stirring the soup, watching the meat, sighing and moaning about her broken rib.
Chpt 42-12
- Margot, the Annex's Dutch teacher, has been correcting these letters for him.
Chpt 43-03
- All the Dutch men who either fought or were mobilized in 1940 have been called up to work in prisoner-of-war camps.†
Chpt 43-04
- Our milkman, who lives in Halfweg, saw four Canadians sitting along the side of the road, and one of them spoke fluent Dutch.†
Chpt 43-05
- Since Pim writes his verses only in German, Margot volunteered to translate it into Dutch.†
Chpt 43-06
- The Dutch broadcast from England began at eight-fifteen with the news: "Listeners, an hour and fifteen minutes ago, just as I finished writing my daily report, we received the wonderful news of Italy's capitulation.†
Chpt 43-09
- As always, the Dutch program was uplifting without being too optimistic.†
Chpt 43-09
- He told me that after the war he wanted to go to the Dutch East Indies and live on a rubber plantation.†
Chpt 44-02
- "Music While You Work," the Dutch broadcast from England, Frank Phillips or Queen Wilhelmina, they each get a turn and find a willing listener.†
Chpt 44-03
- Yours, Anne M. Frank WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1944 Dearest Kitty, Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters dealing with the war.†
Chpt 44-03
- People have to stand in line to buy vegetables and all kinds of goods; doctors can't visit their patients, since their cars and bikes are stolen the moment they turn their backs; burglaries and thefts are so common that you ask yourself what's suddenly gotten into the Dutch to make them so light-fingered.†
Chpt 44-03
- Morale among the Dutch can't be good.†
Chpt 44-03
- Fortunately, only a small percentage of Dutch people are on the wrong side.†
Chpt 44-03
- I'm looking in every newspaper, book and document I can find for the family trees of the French, German, Spanish, English, Austrian, Russian, Norwegian and Dutch royal famthes.†
Chpt 44-04
- We can never be just Dutch, or just English, or whatever, we will always be Jews as well.†
Chpt 44-04
- But now, now that I've been spared, my first wish after the war is to become a Dutch citizen.
Chpt 44-04Dutch = the country of the Netherlands
- I love the Dutch, I love this country, I love the language, and I want to work here.†
Chpt 44-04
- Gerrit Bolkestein was the Minister of Education and Pieter Gerbrandy was the Prime Minister of the Dutch government in exile in London.
Chpt 44-04Dutch = the people of the Netherlands
- All Dutch people will be issued new ration registration cards.†
Chpt 44-04
- First, I translated a passage on Nelson's last battle from Dutch into English.†
Chpt 44-04
- Saturday evening at dinner he apologized in beautiful Dutch.†
Chpt 44-05
- You can see we're never far from Miep's thoughts, since she promptly noted their names and addresses in case anything should happen and we needed contacts with good Dutch people.†
Chpt 44-05
- Is learning English, Spanish and Dutch with no noticeable results; reads everything; goes along with the opinion of the majority.†
Chpt 44-05
- Is learning English, French (correspondence course), shorthand in Dutch, English and German, commercial correspondence in English, woodworking, economics and sometimes math; seldom reads, sometimes geography.†
Chpt 44-05
- Correspondence courses in English, French and Latin, shorthand in English, German and Dutch, trigonometry, solid geometry, mechanics, physics, chemistry, algebra, geometry, English literature, French literature, German literature, Dutch literature, bookkeeping, geography, modern history, biology, economics; reads everything, preferably on religion and medicine.†
Chpt 44-05
- Correspondence courses in English, French and Latin, shorthand in English, German and Dutch, trigonometry, solid geometry, mechanics, physics, chemistry, algebra, geometry, English literature, French literature, German literature, Dutch literature, bookkeeping, geography, modern history, biology, economics; reads everything, preferably on religion and medicine.†
Chpt 44-05
- Shorthand in French, English, German and Dutch, geometry, algebra, history, geography, art history, mythology, biology, Bible history, Dutch literature; likes to read biographies, dull or exciting, and history books (sometimes novels and light reading).†
Chpt 44-05
- Shorthand in French, English, German and Dutch, geometry, algebra, history, geography, art history, mythology, biology, Bible history, Dutch literature; likes to read biographies, dull or exciting, and history books (sometimes novels and light reading).†
Chpt 44-05
- The suspense is rising to fever pitch; by no means has everyone we think of as "good" Dutch people kept their faith in the English, not everyone thinks the English bluff is a masterful strategical move.†
Chpt 44-05
- What have the Dutch done to deserve the generous help they so clearly expect?†
Chpt 44-05
- Oh no, the Dutch are very much mistaken.†
Chpt 44-05
- To be honest, I can't understand how the Dutch, a nation of good, honest, upright people, can sit in judgment on us the way they do.†
Chpt 44-05
- I have only one hope: that this anti-Semitism is just a passing thing, that the Dutch will show their true colors, that they'll never waver from what they know in their hearts to be just, for this is unjust!†
Chpt 44-05
- There's a Dutch proverb: "High and dry, safe and sound," but it obviously doesn't apply to wartime (guns!)†
Chpt 44-06
- BBC broadcast in German, Dutch, French and other languages at ten: The invasion has begun!†
Chpt 44-06
- From our position here in Fort Annex, it's difficult to gauge the mood of the Dutch.†
Chpt 44-06
- After that the British shouldn't remain in Holland: they should offer their most abject apologies to all the occupied countries, restore the Dutch East Indies to its rightful owner and then return, weakened and impoverished, to England.†
Chpt 44-06
- And yet, as I've already said, many Dutch people can be counted among their ranks.†
Chpt 44-06
- All those Dutch people who still look down on the British, scoff at England and its government of old fogies, call the English cowards, yet hate the Germans, should be given a good shaking, the way you'd plump up a pillow.†
Chpt 44-06
- Mussert* [* The leader of the Dutch National Socialist (Nazi) Party] has announced that if the invasion reaches Holland, he'll enlist.†
Chpt 44-06
Definition:
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(Dutch) the people of the Netherlands (including Holland); or relating to them (including the name of their language)editor's notes: Many people refer to the Netherlands as Holland -- which is more accurately the most populous region of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is best known for having 25% of its land below sea level.