10th October 2011 Today's Words 3

Dutch	English	Comments
mensen	people	Also occurs in the Longman word list.
pardon	sorry
inktvis	squid	inkt=ink, vis=fish
bleek	pale	We met this earlier in bleekselderij meaning celery. Selderij itself also means celery.
sigaar	cigar
kopen	to buy	Compare with verkopen - to sell. Earlier, we had ik koop - I buy.
herhaald	recurrent, repeated
groente	vegetable
schroef	screw
ligstoel	deckchair	lig = lie, lying, stoel = chair
ik geloof	I believe	From the infinitive geloven, which we had earlier.
hemel	sky	We met this earlier as de hemel where it was translated as heaven. Probably lucht is more commonly used for sky than hemel.
de vuilnes	rubbish	From vuil = dirty.
hagel	hail