That’s right, it is a well-known fact that wishing an illness upon your enemies is a common way to curse in Dutch. Have you ever been so angry at someone that you verbally express your desire for them getting cholera? No? How about typhoid fever? Still no? That’s weird… It’s weird at least for some Dutchies, because Dutch swearing involves diseases sometimes. Check out Learn Dutch (and their supreme Youtube channel) if you’re serious about learning Dutch! Having said that, let’s begin kut! And just like eating only one s troopwafel from the package (instead of all of them at the same time like a giant sandwich), it would be a crime not to start with the infamous ‘disease-based curses’.īefore we get going, we’d really like to thank Bart de Pau from Learn Dutch for working together with us on all these beautiful ugly words of Dutch. We’re just trying cover as many aspects of Dutch culture for you, our international reader fan-base. So whether you want to yell at a misbehaving Brit in Amsterdam, or you want to deepen your Dutch-learning experience, here we’ll show some of the best Dutch swear words. DutchReview , of course, does not condone the use of any of the following Dutch curse words, profanity or phrases. In a language where normal words like Scheveningen already sound like unforgivable curses from Harry Potter, it’s good to at least recognize some of the basic ones. ‘ Lul‘ is one of the many creative ways to curse at someone in Dutch. Little did I know that she was in fact not ‘ laughing out loud’ she called me a ‘ penis‘ for almost killing her children. That was years before I knew how to speak Dutch, so I was a bit confused because I thought she yelled out ‘LOL!’. The woman riding the bakfiets yelled out ‘ Lul!‘ as we just barely missed each other. After almost crashing into a bakfiets full of 2-year-olds, I had my first experience with Dutch swear words. It was my first week in the ‘Orange Country’ and I knew little of biking etiquette. I still remember the first time I biked past a red light in The Netherlands. Need some Dutch swear words? Don’t care about cycling but do care about cursing in the Netherlands? Dutch profanity? CHECK! Welcome to DutchReview’s swearing guide where we’ll teach you all the Dutch insults you will ever need during your life in the Netherlands.

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