ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Dutch language

Okay, so you know how some people speak English, right? Well, in some places, like some parts of Europe, people speak a different language called Dutch. Dutch is a language that sounds a little bit like English, but it has some different words and rules for how they talk.

So, in Dutch, they have something called "pronouns" which are words they use instead of names. For example, instead of saying "John went to the store," they might say "He went to the store." They also have different words for things like "I," "you," "he," "she," and "it."

Another thing that's different in Dutch is their "articles." Articles are those little words like "a" or "the" that we use in English. In Dutch, they have a few different articles depending on whether the thing they're talking about is a boy or a girl, or singular or plural (which means more than one).

Finally, Dutch has some tricky grammar rules that can be a little confusing. For example, the order of the words in a sentence can change depending on what they're talking about. So instead of saying "I went to the store," they might say "To the store, I went."

But don't worry, even though Dutch might seem a little different than English, it's still a language that people can learn and speak fluently, just like any other language!