Food & Drinks in Dutch

Food and drinks are a recurring talking point, not only while eating out on vacation. So let’s learn the most common words and phrases related to this topic.

Contents

Basic Food & Spices
Basic Words & Phrases
Dishes
Dishes & Cutlery
Drinks
Flavors
Fruit & Vegetables
Meat & Sausages
Sweets
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Basic Food & Spices

English	Dutch	Pronunciation (Audio)
bread [Sg]	brood
breads [Pl]	broden
roll [Sg]	rol
rolls [Pl]	rollen
butter	boter
cheese	kaas
honey	honing
jam [Sg]	jam
jams [Pl]	jams
egg [Sg]	ei
eggs [Pl]	eieren
noodles	noedels
rice	rijst
yoghurt [Sg]	yoghurt
yoghurts [Pl]	yoghurts
sugar	suiker
salt	zout
pepper	peper
spice [Sg]	kruid
spices [Pl]	kruiden
oil	olie

Basic Words & Phrases

English	Dutch	Pronunciation (Audio)
(to) eat	eten
food	voedsel
(to) drink	drinken
drink [Sg]	drankje
drinks [Pl]	drankjes
hungry	(hebben) honger hongerig
hunger	honger
thirsty	(hebben) dorst dorstig
thirst	dorst
(to) cook	koken
(to) taste	proeven
tasty	smakelijk
delicious	heerlijk
Bon appetit! / Enjoy your meal!	Eet smakelijk!
Cheers! / To your health!	Proost!
breakfast	ontbijt
lunch	lunch
dinner	avondeten
restaurant [Sg]	restaurant
restaurants [Pl]	restaurants
bar [Sg]	bar
bars [Pl]	bars
café	café

Dishes

English	Dutch	Pronunciation (Audio)
soup [Sg]	soep
soups [Pl]	soepen
salad [Sg]	salade
salads [Pl]	salades
french fries / chips	friet

Dishes & Cutlery

English	Dutch	Pronunciation (Audio)
cutlery	bestek
fork	vork
spoon	lepel
knife	mes
plate	bord
glass	glas
cup	kop
mug	mok

Drinks

English	Dutch	Pronunciation (Audio)
water	water
mineral water	mineraal water
soda water / sparkling water	koolzuurhoudend water
still water	koolzuurvrij water
juice [Sg]	sap
juices [Pl]	sappen
beer	bier
wine	wijn
champagne	champagne
cocktail	cocktail
milk	melk
cocoa	cacao
coffee	koffie
tea	thee

Flavors

English	Dutch	Pronunciation (Audio)
sweet	zoet
sour	zuur
spicy	gekruid
salty	zout
bitter	bitter

Fruit & Vegetables

English	Dutch	Pronunciation (Audio)
fruit	fruit
vegetables	groenten
apple [Sg]	appel
apples [Pl]	appels
orange [Sg]	sinaasappel
oranges [Pl]	sinaasappels
strawberry [Sg]	aardbei
strawberries [Pl]	aardbeien
banana [Sg]	banaan
bananas [Pl]	bananen
potato [Sg]	aardappel
potatoes [Pl]	aardappelen
cucumber [Sg]	komkommer
cucumbers [Pl]	komkommers

Meat & Sausages

English	Dutch	Pronunciation (Audio)
meat	vlees
sausage [Sg]	worst
sausages [Pl]	worsten
small sausage [Sg]	worstje
small sausages [Pl]	worstjes
ham	ham
chicken	kip
fish	vis
beef	rundvlees
lamb	lam

Sweets

English	Dutch	Pronunciation (Audio)
chocolate	chocolade
pie [Sg]	taart
pies [Pl]	taarten
cake [Sg]	cake
cakes [Pl]	cakes
biscuit [Sg]	koekje
biscuits [Pl]	koekjes
icecream	ijsje

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