The ;oe; sound in Dutch is like the English 'oo' sound.
Eg. Hoek van Holland, ; is Hook of Holland.
However, the 'oo' sound in Dutch is like a single 'o' sound in English, such as 'no' or 'know'.
Yes!!! The phonetics of Dutch can be quite difficult to understand.
Zoet
Bart Zoet was born in 1942.
Bart Zoet died in 1992.
Jim Zoet was born on 1953-12-20.
Jeroen Zoet was born on 1991-01-06.
Johannes Zoet died on 1992-09-07.
Johannes Zoet was born on 1908-10-12.
Same as in English, only you pronounce the "a" as how you pronounce it in "car". Src: Dutch native (me)
Biz is not a dutch word.
The ISBN of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is 0340921560.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet has 480 pages.
The Dutch equivalent to John is "Jan", pronounced "Yarn".