27th September 2011 Today's Words

I've caught up to where I was with the other account, with just one more error. I wrote slek instead of slak for snail.

The words I've learnt today are these.

Dutch	English	Comments
vliegtuig	aeroplane	Tuig on its own means harness, or mob, although that can't be the meaning here. A flying mob? Scary! It's also used in vaartuig, where vaar is from varen which is to move on water. A harness for a horse is paardetuig, where paard is horse.
de worm	the worm, kid, tot
lekker	delicious
baan	job	Ik heb een baan. I have a job. This is paid work rather than just a job that needs to be done around the house. Ik ga naar werk. I go to work.
de pijn	the pain, sorrow
baas	boss
het tandvlees	the gum	Tand is tooth, vlees is meat so this is literally the tooth meat. As with pork, which is literally pig meat (varkensvlees), the is het since it is het vlees and the article must agree with the last part of the noun.
fout	fault	De fout also means the mistake.
dekbed	duvet	The word for blanket is deken. Although, the spelling is similar, in dekbed it's a short e and in deken a long. The verb to cover is dekken.
vrij	free	Vrij occurred earlier where it was translated as vacant.
suiker	sugar
de boot	the boat, ship, craft
de broer	the friar, brother	The plural, broers is in the Longman wordlist.
gids	guide	It means both a person who is a guide, and a TV guide. It can be used for a guidebook. Although it can be used for a manual, handleiding is more common.
iemand	someone
tezamen	together	The wordlist says te zamen but it's actually one word. It's not a particularly common word.

Writing this page has certainly helped me remember them, as has talking them over with a friend. I made one mistake when I went through the harvest stage which was to spell suiker with a z instead of an s.