Dutch Language and Culture

By pasting Dutch text on websites like Babelfish(Yahoo) or google translate.

Hit the translate button and its done. Be careful, translations generated with this sort machines are never a reliable one.

Here is a sample of Dutch writing:

Israël is een land in Azië, het Midden-Oosten en de Levant. Israël grenst aan Libanon, Syrië, Jordanië, Egypte en de Palestijnse Gebieden. Het land heeft een kust aan de Middellandse Zee en een haven aan de Rode Zee. Op 14 mei 1948 werd de onafhankelijke staat Israël uitgeroepen. Deze werd op 11 mei 1949 toegelaten tot het lidmaatschap van de Verenigde Naties.

Het is een representatieve democratie met een parlementair stelsel, evenredige vertegenwoordiging en algemeen kiesrecht. Het land had in 2014 de hoogste levensstandaard in het Midden-Oosten. De levensverwachting in Israël behoorde in 2009 tot de hoogste in de wereld.

No, Dutch is the language spoken in the Netherlands.

German is the language of principally Germany, Austria and most of Switzerland.

There are people who speak Dutch in Germany, they learn it at school or live in the area adjacent to the Netherlands; mainly around Cleves.
No. They speak german.

People from holland speak dutch! nah they speak spanish...that is THEIR language.

Nu Elck Syn Sin is a Dutch equivalent of the saying 'To each his own'.

The answer above is a "Zaans" saying (Zaans is a dialect spoken in the Dutch province North Holland)

The original Dutch saying is either 'Smaken verschillen' or 'Ieder zijn meug'

The first one is more common. Another translation (but not really a saying) is 'Ieder zijn deel' (which literally translates to 'Each his share')

"You have a message from..." is an English equivalent of the incomplete Dutch phrase "Je hebt een bericht van... ."

Specifically, the personal pronoun "je" means "you." The verb "hebt" means "(You) are having, do have, have." The indefinite article "een" means "a, one." The noun "bericht" means "message." The preposition "van" means "from."

That's very old Dutch, in new dutch it's Nu elk zijn zin. A translation for that is "Now everybody's got it their way" or something.

This page explains it a bit more:

What_is_'Nu_Elck_Syn_Sin'_in_English

"Castle" is an English equivalent of "kasteel."

The Dutch word is a noun. Its singular definite article is "het" ("the"). Its singular indefinite article is "een" ("a, one").

"Wheel" is an English equivalent of "wiel."

The invention of the wheel is considered a giant leap for humankind. Traditionally, the wheel's inventors are thought to be the Mesopotamian peoples who settled between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers around 7,000 years ago. But scientists are revisiting that conclusion on the basis of improved technology and additional archaeological finds.

Specifically, it now appears that the invention of the wheel also took place about the same time in the areas of the present Balkans, central Europe and the northern Caucasus. In fact, the earliest known artistic depictions of the wheel are from outside Mesopotamia. Indeed, they instead are found in connection with the Funnelbeaker culture of people living in southern Poland by 3500 B.C.E. - 3350 B.C.E.

"Leerzaam moment" is a Dutch equivalent of "teachable moment."

The Dutch word "moment" takes as its singular definite article "het" ("the"). Its singular indefinite article is "een" ("a"). The adjective ''leerzaam" means "teachable."

"Moment" is a Dutch equivalent of "moment."

The Dutch word takes the singular definite article "het" ("the"). Its singular indefinite article is "een" ("a, one"). The plural form of the Dutch noun is "momenten" ("moments"). The plural definite article is "de," and the plural indefinite article is "sommige" ("some").