Need a translation of some Dutch sentences

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JLatin1
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Need a translation of some Dutch sentences

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En wat doen ze daar?

Wordt mama boos?

Weet jen kerk?

Valt ie hier om?

Thanks in advance,
-Jonathan.

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Well, I'll try my best, but soon someone who knows better will be along :wink: . I can translate them nicely into german, not too sure about my English on these though :lol:

Und was tuen Sie da? - And what are you doing there?

Wird Mama böse? - Is mother getting angry?

Do you know... church? Sorry, don't know what jen means :? Did you mean je?

Ist er hier vorbei? - Did he (come) this way? (come is not needed in this sentence in Dutch or German, literally "is he past here?"

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Re: Need a translation of some Dutch sentences

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JLatin1 wrote:Valt ie hier om?
To me that means "Is he toppling over here?"

Where does this sentence come from? It doesn't make sense to me.

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Adelheid

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Post by Emma_85 »

Yeah, maybe he's like drunk or something and is running/more like falling.

Hehehe, at first I wanted to translated it as 'Fällt er hier um?' :lol: , but I thought that's probably not what the sentence is about....

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Post by ingrid70 »

Strange sentences indeed. Where do they come from?


En wat doen ze daar? - And what are they doing there?

Weet je een kerk? - Do you know a church?

Valt ie hier om? Does he topple over here? ('ie' is colloquial for 'hij' - meaning he.)

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ingrid70 wrote:Strange sentences indeed. Where do they come from?


En wat doen ze daar? - And what are they doing there?

Weet je een kerk? - Do you know a church?

Valt ie hier om? Does he topple over here? ('ie' is colloquial for 'hij' - meaning he.)

Ingrid
Weet je (ee)n kerk. If I wanted to say; Do you know a church?, I would say; Ken je een kerk?
Valt ie hier om? Could possibly mean something like: Is that going to make or break it for him?

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