ELECTRIC SHOCK challenge ⚡ Dutch language students: DE or HET?

Warning: shocking video content!
Electric shock challenge for Dutch language students:
- What is the right article with a given noun: DE or HET?
Video recorded at the BLC Dutch Summer School 2018. We mentioned a noun in Dutch, and the student had to give the right article: DE or HET...
The punishment?
Electric shocks!!!
The goal of this electricity challenge video is to combine language learning with fun... Of course we don't use electric shocks in our real classes... but we do like to have fun during our classes!
Will this video help you remember some rules for using DE or HET?
Video made by:
Bart de Pau and Nicolás Bálbontin
Music used under license:
"Cinematic 5" - Korgzero, "Preparing to prank" - Davoli
To know more about our:
- Dutch Summer School: dutchsummerschool.nl
- Dutch Winter School: dutchwinterschool.nl
- Learn Dutch online with Bart de Pau: www.learndutch.org
Learn more about Dutch articles, nouns and Dutch grammar:
#dutchgrammar: online video course by Bart de Pau:
www.learndutch.org/dutch-gram...

[@allardvanderkamp8329]

Them: "de or het" Me an intellectual: "een"

[@l.l.6407]

@Henk de Tank alles kan zolang je er zelf maar in gelooft.

[@eddingr1970]

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@mahir075]

@@l.l.6407 gelooft*

[@l.l.6407]

@@mahir075 Grammar Nazi, mensen die anderen proberen te verbeteren op taal zijn de zwakke schakels van onze maatschappij. Is uit wetenschappelijk onderzoek gebleken. Op KZbin is het zwaar onnodig om anderen hierom te verbeteren, daarbij was het laat toen in de reactie postte.

[@mahir075]

@@l.l.6407 oke hou je mond maar dicht nerd

[@reefyyy]

Most dutch people dont know why its like this we just simply know. Its sounds good or right thats all haha

[@zyzzthetics7]

Yeah there are rules for all of them actually. Though for me, just doing it as it feels best works the most efficient.

[@MattFyrm]

Ikr xD

[@nickp7526]

@@zyzzthetics7 There aren't rules for ALL of them. It's based on feeling.

[@kookiesbananamilk4881]

Indeed, i didnt know any of rhese rules 😂

[@dontjustdont1968]

Ikr, we're just like... This sounds about right

[@zonnewateler6149]

It's so fun to watch if you're Dutch😂

[@zonnewateler6149]

Jasper Van Nieuwkerke nou en

[@milena8900]

Zonne Wateler OMG JAAA IDD AHAAHAH

[@_happymateogamer_8401]

Ja dit is echt grappig

[@faktorf8978]

Zonne Wateler yo dutch is one of the worst languages in the world so I’m sorry for you guys

[@RedmarKerkhof]

BZZZZT

[@jasperbean1]

I don't know the rules of 'de' and 'het', it just always comes natural to me. And I think to a lot of other dutchies as well. So even I learned something today!

[@marit9237]

Er is ook geen regel 😂😂 There's no rule 😂😂

[@tim.vschaik]

@@marit9237 ja idd

[@Sarah-wp9ss]

Jasper Boonstra there isn’t really a rule except for plural and diminitive forms, and a few others. For French or German people, for example it comes natural as well

[@TinaSound25]

Er zijn wel meer regels hoor. Volgens mij heeft het ook met de geslachten te maken alleen dat is in het Nederlands moeilijk te zien. Ik herinner me dat onzijdige woorden 'het' zijn en zowel mannelijke als vrouwelijke woorden 'de'

[@laramaaike3050]

Ik dacht dat vrouwelijk altijd het was, nu raak ik in de war. Bij mij werkt het iig altijd op gevoel.

[@Freedom_and_Acceptance]

I feel bad for anyone having to learn all these, we just know because we heard it from the day we were born.

[@nereax2249]

Yup, even the word dildo

[@henkdevos590]

Trust me, German is a worse language to learn

[@patatjuih]

We don t need to learn it we do it on fealing

[@TimDaOne]

@@henkdevos590 I'm Dutch and I think German is quite easy.

[@---hp6ld]

Yeah That's why

[@hilde105]

They should do this with "die" and "dat"

[@pietervannes4476]

Literally the exact same

[@dutchwannabe7660]

Deze and dit

[@elinepost5689]

Dat is bijna hetzelfde

[@xRobbjeee]

Dat kunnen nederlanders zelf 9/10 keer niet eens

[@colorbar.s]

_oh no_

[@MattFyrm]

I feel so powerful as a native! MUHAHAHAHA

[@sanderhonig8276]

haha, yeah me too

[@jan_the_man]

Ikr

[@shanairasno]

Sameee😂😂

[@irissupercoolsy]

HAha yes me too! :p They have no idea

[@rubenschultz9708]

I feel that they are very dum and i am smart af

[@Cael_Dereck]

"What's the best way to learn Dutch ?" "Through torture, obviously !" Joke aside, a friend of mine did the challenge :)

[@danielde7542]

Yes, next time the Dutch turture waterboarding will be applied.

[@ItsALifetime]

At least the g sound has to escape their mouth sometime during that

[@Defhrone]

@@ItsALifetime haha. I've always made the joke: What dutch beer brand can people identify and pronounce the second they taste it: Grolsch (explaination: so many dutch g-sounds mades it sound like you're throwing up. ie: a joke at the expense of the beer brand)

[@ItsALifetime]

1:16 My brains during an exam

[@mariekeeij6282]

XD

[@marapennings6568]

Same hahaha

[@idiotry]

I'm dutch so this is very funny to watch this even I don't know the rules of het and de I just know what to use

[@jd-ju3vr]

As a Dutch speaking person, this is really funny to me

[@siemhotting5058]

Voor mij ook

[@picklerapist4380]

jd712 het dildo 😂

[@RBRT02]

Wat is erger? De Duits Of Het Duitslands

[@daanwillemsen223]

@@desertkil Niks mis met Duitsland!

[@desertkil]

@@daanwillemsen223 klopt, ik zat gewoon wat onzin voor de lol te praten

[@MattFyrm]

Het duitsland sowieso

[@steyn1775]

Nah De nazi's zijn erger

[@annabelvisser3281]

Het duitslands is erger

[@Cutedarkness]

2:08 you have a really good Dutch accent!

[@claudiocropano1190]

Thank you!

[@Prutswerk]

0:22 The guy with the glasses looks like someone who's already regretting his decision to appear in this video. Let the electrocution commence!

[@Felipe.N.Martins]

Shocking! Inderdaad. :-)

[@nbalbontin]

Felipe- The new youtube celebrity stopped by to say hello. hahaha

[@oghond]

Felipe Nascimento Martins I assume that means “indeed.”

[@z00bs.]

ja zeer spannend lol het en de zijn niet echt regels voor gwn taalgevoel

[@chesterschriever]

@@z00bs. Helaas zijn er dus echt wel regels voor HET en DE. Ik heb nooit de logica ervan kunnen begrijpen, maar er zijn daadwerkelijk regels voor het gebruik ervan. Dit wordt op nederlandse middelbare scholen aangeleerd.

[@andredingstertsao]

I’m always curious why native speaker just knows without having to memorising everything like this, especially if you think about a language such as German where there are Die, Der and Das. It is fascinating to me as a Chinese where we native speakers literally have to memorise the pronunciation of every character as the writing doesn’t reflect the pronunciation at all.

[@timowthie]

I'm dutch and don't even know the rules of when the use De, and when to use Het.

[@michaelw.4469]

Het is best simpel, gewoon kijken welke het best klinkt

[@flo4009]

@@michaelw.4469 goeie tip

[@michaelw.4469]

@@flo4009 👌

[@elixzos]

MichaelW005 Wij Nederlanders horen dat, maar bijvoorbeeld mensen uit Amerika horen dat niet.

[@nostalgia8657]

Yeah that's normal, cuz you are Dutch

[@elpidach5674]

I love this haha

[@ikyune1665]

army!!

[@Marith4849]

I was gonna type that also😂😂

[@jeonchuux6109]

Hi army!

[@vicandjuul7346]

Super man is gane

[@kookiesbananamilk4881]

Armyyyy 💜 btw same 😂

[@timonevers4956]

Im scrolling to see G E K O L O N I S E E R D messages

[@kirina7870]

Ja ik ook G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@kirina7870]

Kolonisatie Zoek Da op en je zal het wel vinden

[@kirina7870]

@@applejuices oké 👍👍!!!!!

[@willemijnhutten2423]

I love how the man at 0:56 says 'this is making me nervous' while he looks totally relaxed 😂 and I'm Dutch it's so fun to watch!

[@maxispeeltspellen4892]

Lol dit is zo grappig als je Nederlands bent 😂😂😂

[@asmaeelmadkouki1437]

Maxi SpeeltSpellen ja tgg😂

[@berkantkarso]

Yup

[@jazieelgeiger1366]

Die dildo 😹😹

[@fleur7233]

Ja 😂

[@seanl67]

I can nail this easy, if you just gave me all the words in plural form. ;)

[@dutchwannabe7660]

Sean L lol

[@paulverbrugghe5416]

Nice one. ;)

[@DataStorm1]

Some have no plural in there. "Communisme" has no singular or plural for example.

[@bobhaagsma7942]

De stoelen. Het stoeltje... Doesn't really work ;)

[@jamievanaalderen3806]

Haha I’m Dutch and had to check if they’re all the same way because that never came to mind

[@wh2681]

4:12 that man on he left is me if my friend hits the ground

[@MM-qk9lj]

Jeahhh

[@hooimansen]

Gebruik mij als de Dutch people represent button.

[@gerardmourits8709]

Pfff je wil gewoon likes

[@hooimansen]

@@teunl387 Niet schelden

[@HumbleWolves]

"Careful, it's the hand of your heart." 'Oh well'

[@huntiepuntie610]

*Normal Dutch people:* 'De' 'Het' *Turkish people in The Netherlands:* 'Die' 'Deze'

[@MJ-rv5ri]

Wat is deze

[@brigetthemidget7886]

The video: dildo Me as a dutch person watching: 😱😱😱

[@annabelvisser3281]

Ja idd

[@R_candy]

Else Bink lol ja ik dacht echt waarom

[@jenniferleusink]

What about 'condoom', I'm not sure about that one

[@vivienne7309]

Haha was echt grappig

[@laramaaike3050]

Het condoom!

[@nathalielouist28]

2:07 woowww hij klinkt echt als een Nederlandse man!!!!

[@marretjep]

Loving the production quality of this! Very good lighting, audio, image quality and of course editing! Keep it up!

[@gellidanielle3931]

This is actually hilarious 😂😂

[@oghond]

OH! So “de” and “het” are essentially the un/une of the Dutch language! Am I right?

[@juno5301]

No the der die das. Het is like das. And der and die like de

[@oghond]

J Conrnel Okay... *goes to look up German grammar and Dutch grammar*

[@oghond]

Olleke Bolleke Okay, then. Ik leer Nederlands, and my pronunciation sucks. Seriously, if I try to say a Dutch G I sound like a computer that glitched in the middle of talking. So “gezellig” would sound like “[STATIC]-zelli-[STATIC].” And that’s if I get lucky and don’t end up bleeding the throaty noise into the rest of the word. Then I just sound like Cthulhu. And neither of those are apparently how Dutch people pronounce the G. HELP: WANTED.

[@oghond]

And both of you are Dutch, I presume?

[@ravip3693]

@@oghond what do you need help with? it just takes some getting used to pronouncing the r and g

[@thenonexistinghero]

Saying it out loud or using it in a sentence can help a lot too. Almost all of the time, if it sounds better, it is the right one.

[@SharonHorswill]

Hilarious and really useful, thanks!

[@myrtejager5877]

Its so funny when your dutch and see this

[@imsaskia7610]

@Mad Jack Thanks

[@lollyfong1834]

I promise I will study het/de words!

[@gardenjoy5223]

Especially enjoyed the last sentences of explanation. Like it was necessary. And, who knows?, it might be... Am binging on these fun video's. Keep up the good work. You are so inventive and creative with them! Just read your message in the description box: shocking content indeed. Love such language jokes!

[@tibosmet2218]

Zo grappig hoe ze dat zeggen

[@michalmorawski91]

Heel goed gedaan, Bart!

[@mosekhmm]

haha, so funny!:) really like this one;)

[@sjoerdstougie]

Id love to come and see how those classes work but im poor, young and most importantly already dutch, but that isnt going to stop me from watching this amazing content!

[@bente2090]

I’m Dutch and the other day I had a discussion with a classmate if it was ”de koffer” or ”het koffer” if you're not a Dutchman please say what you think.

[@liekeduyvesteijn925]

De koffer!!! Btw I am Dutch

[@melvingamer]

De

[@rania9489]

Where's the dude in the red button up from. I lile his accent.

[@Lilrubs02]

Yes there zijn some regels for the people die not Nederlands kennen talken, but voor de dutch people is het automatisch became. Ff een bamihappie in mn mik douwen ouwe zeikstraal

[@lex4103]

wtf if I were to be English I wouldn't understand a fucking word of this whole scentense

[@Lilrubs02]

Luca It’s a joke, I mixed it with dutch words

[@KleineRattekop]

omg this just blew my mind! I'm Dutch and I did not know there were helping rules for choosing de or het!!

[@pippammm]

Ahh thanks this is so helpful! Do you also have a video on when adjectives should have an -e?

[@matthijs4661]

That's basically the same thing. Words that would get a 'de' would also get an adjective ending with -e I think.

[@MK-ex2vt]

Ik wist alles ! :D

[@merra1619]

Wouw je bent de goedste

[@Dweezeltje1]

Beste* ;)

[@MM-qk9lj]

Trlkkk nl of be?

[@merra1619]

@@Dweezeltje1 helemaal niet wat ben je dom

[@qrdsn]

@@Dweezeltje1 goedste

[@user-yo8wv4cw2d]

Leuk dit😂

[@TomMKW]

it's actually quite interesting as a dutch person to learn all these rules for when to use de or het.

[@maamjulie5298]

may i know the device used in this video, please?

[@pasuparehina888]

Hahaha! Dit is echt grappig! Maar vooral goed gedaan

[@atinnyakotv4261]

Everybody here is so happy😂

[@Niels-3]

2:06 The way that guy said _'het Duits'_ almost made him sound like a native speaker!

[@claudiocropano1190]

Thank you man!

[@Niels-3]

​@@claudiocropano1190 It's you! Can't believe you found my comment after more than two years haha

[@DiMo28]

Makes me feel a bit better about learning these myself.

[@curcidecasa2745]

Inderdaad, dit is een goede methode om de/het voorden zich te herinneren. Je bent toch op Pavlov en de honden geinspireerd?

[@makobeast1720]

2:57 lol

[@nunswithgunsvj]

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST EPISODE OF THIS SERIES!! IM LITERALLY CRYING

[@mariaflower2050]

Im dutchie with another origin and i make mistakes too in this. Its also not always a thing with rules what u can learn. As i remember when i asked a teacher whats the rule for this!? He said; its the feeling what dutch people automatically have. So i will get shocks as well by this game. Its a struggle for the most foreign dutchies.

[@suprairc]

These were easy, there are some that even Dutch people do wrong. Like "de matras" and "de doolhof". Which sounds rather odd to us Dutch but they're both "de".

[@Teun_Jac]

No fucking way! It is definitely "het"

[@suprairc]

You just proved my point ;)

[@Teun_Jac]

@@suprairc nee man, doolhof is zeker weten een onzijdig woord

[@shadesofvirgo]

bij beide woorden kun je zowel de als het gebruiken

[@jenniferleusink]

What about 'condoom'?

[@tomasvanderkrogt258]

Am I the only Dutch guy that likes Dutch comments so people will “know” that I’m Dutch or is it just me😂

[@berkantkarso]

Dat doen ze gewoon om te laten zien: van kijk mij Nederlander zijn. Kijk het gaat over ons. Wij hebben fame. Denk ik althans. Ik weet niet wat jij denkt daarover?

[@tomasvanderkrogt258]

Berkant Karso Haha tis wel waar

[@anna_j.4827]

Zo grappig om te zien moeten jullie vaker doen!

[@shienad125]

Informative and fun! Haha

[@tanuki116]

Ik heb dingen geleerd! Dankuwel

[@tanuki116]

Could you tell me if dank u/je wel is always written separately ? If it varies, then why ? I often see them written in just one word. Dank u wel ;)

[@Chrjstjan]

De duits doesn’t sound right, so it’s het that’s how I know it😂

[@wereldvanriley7]

But what about dildo? Het dildo sounds more right to me but it’s the wrong one. I’m guessing it has something to do with it’s a different language origin

[@btje1999]

Really well editing

[@droidcommander9305]

Mag de AIVD dat ding lenen?

[@SenorQuichotte]

Ha ha ha. ROFL

[@mikeverkleij9560]

Druk op de knop als je nederlands bent ⬇️

[@jcreativespace8162]

Geweldig dit! 😂😂

[@kookiesbananamilk4881]

This is epic 😂😂

[@daano50letter36]

Waarschijnlijk kijken bijna alleen Nederlanders dit.

[@vcantsee7444]

@@elizahhalfh664 dat is te merken

[@thomasschulz8477]

Sws

[@welsevie2010]

De manier waarop ze het zeggen is hilarisch! The way they say it is hilaric.

[@thymenwestrum7011]

Pronounce

[@chantinoire]

*hilarious

[@jonklife]

OMG, this video made my day. I had to laugh so hard!!! I think I would never forget how to use het or de.

[@wannaratkhai-armat5981]

I like this video 👍👍👍

[@qwertypc_game17]

Waarom zegt iedereen [ De communisme ] ?

[@jasmyn2517]

QwertyPc Gaming echt he

[@quintijnkroesbergen5611]

Omdat het in het Engels the communism is

[@Grimlock1979]

Alles in het Engels is the.

[@Kikkerv11]

Omdat leenwoorden bijna altijd met "de" zijn. Tenzij ze eindigen op -isme, -ment of -um...

[@nehajkumar7934]

Hehe... het is heel veel goed idee voor leren Nederlands Taal 🤢

[@sis4120]

Omg the dildo one😂😂 "Its a toy" Im dying😂

[@c.l.h.bokhorst6687]

I already kan do Dutch, very good!

[@ave_nue3072]

There's No rule to whether something is ‘de’ or ‘het’ it's something only dutch people have Ehm feeling for to know which one is iT.

[@jenniferleusink]

There are multiple rules actually, jou probably just don't know them because you're Dutch.

[@ave_nue3072]

jenniferleusink, I guess that’s true

[@julienov8084]

Every language has rules with exceptions.

[@e420s_]

i as a dutch person dont now any of these things because i prefer learning english so my dutch just became shit

[@nadyaamani6505]

Same hahaha

[@e420s_]

Nadya Amani gewoon ik ga praten en mn vrienden worden boos omdat mn nederlands gewoon kut is 😂

[@Dimanti88]

I can do both, because I'm a taalnazi.

[@e420s_]

Dimanti888 no we dont want grammar nazis here

[@sennacookie5043]

These were pretty simple words though. If you've grown up Dutch, you should know these thing. (Ok, dildo might not be a good word to know when you're growing up)

[@martianpudding9522]

I'm Dutch and I'm really wondering right now if there's rules for this because I wanted to write a comment explaining it but I really can't.

[@arposkraft3616]

this is probably the only way to learn it as theres not much we can do for you in the realms of logical explanation

[@26Vincent26]

I am Dutch. Fun to see this! And that those people want to learn Dutch of course. I did not know some of the rules, haha, just doing it on feeling

[@geryjanssens1617]

I didn’t knew we had all these rules 😂

[@AvanToor]

This is basically a test of Bart's skills as a teacher.

[@geennaam7558]

I live in the Netherlands my whole life and I still don’t know when to use do or het

[@warpnin3]

Learn children's poems and rhymes, and read children's books

[@Jonathan-kraai]

when your are german and start to learn dutch, you can simply learn the special rules (-isme, -tje, -pje, -etje, -je = het and -ing = de [there are more rules]) and for the rest you take the german artikle and if the german article is DER or DIE it has around 85% chance that the dutch article will be DE. So when learning words with articles only learn the articles if they differ from that rule. so you learn for example: dildo, raam, de auto, neus, weer, het lidwoord sadly that does not work so well the other way round, when you're dutch and want to learn german. also a hint for _everyone_ who learns dutch and wants to do the Taalexamen NT2-II: if you have no clue what the article for a specific word is: make the small form out of it. because then it is always HET (de) auto -> het autoTJE (de) wang -> het wangETJE (de) vis -> het visJE (de) boom -> het boomPJE (love this one tbh)

[@tessab.6351]

LOVE THIS

[@femkejanne1889]

Dit was echt hilarisch!

[@mrrit]

Deze video's zijn echt fantastisch. Ik stuur ze altijd door naar mijn foreign friends, omdat het echt een goeie graadmeter is om uit te leggen hoe onze cultuur in elkaar zit.

[@Paragon643]

Wished you had thrown in some words twice but than a different form of it. Like "kast" en "kastje". Would be a good way to see if they just go from what they remember or if they actually think about how it sounds. Since it would be "de kast" and "het kastje" so you have to think about the rules or listen to how it sounds to know which to use.

[@kevinstevelmans4568]

The right guy on 0:40 looks terrified when he heard electricity will come out of it (not sure if thats why he looks like that but still. I died when he looked like that) 😂😂😂

[@xiyition]

wacht wat? talen hebben een lidwoord?

[@spashdad]

Genius idea for a channel. There is sooooo much about the dutch culture to talk about. Ow ja en ik ben Nederlands Bart

[@paytowin8468]

just like french, la or le but in dutch there are rules for it. read link below: learnpractice.com/rules-dutch-articles

[@xativaxativa8952]

On Pinterest you will find a form with all correct DE en HET words and when we use them.

[@itchyfeet9862]

Nice 😄

[@user-qd9wh4cb5f]

Geniaal

[@onengkusumah2905]

now i want to join your summer school, i like challenges

[@jolijnmous1619]

2:07 was really good dutch for like that second. if i only heard that id believe he was dutch.

[@Dani-pf2ti]

Tbh was dit echt interessant omdat je ziet waarom het de of het is... bij de meeste is het gewoon zo aangeleerd zonder reden

[@Viki_Bug]

This was very amusing for a dutch native such as myself