How do you say please in netherland?

Answer 1

in text you put ", a.u.b." at the end of the sentence.

It means "als het U belieft", which translates "if it please you".

"U" is the formal 'You' (as in Mr./Mrs./Sir/Madam), in less formal cases you would say als het jij belieft.

Pronounciation varies but if one would try to write down what it sound like in English it would be something like

"uls hat u b'lived" or "ust-hu-blived" (u in 'ust' sounds as in u in ugly, 'hat' as in trick top hat, 'blived' like in ' i believed' without the 'e' after the b)

the non formal version would sound similar to

"ush-ye-blived" or "ush-ye-bleeved"

so if you want to say please in NL, in most cases just insert an "ush-ye-blived" at the and of a spoken sentence and you're fine :-)