The 10 best Dutch Anki decks (2027)

Number 5 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1 · 202 notes · audio on 100% · updated July 2015

Dutch Core 100 is a 101-word A1 topic list (months, days, numbers, body parts, jobs, greetings) with audio and images on every card, but it teaches almost no usable Dutch beyond that and is not worth studying as a main deck.

Verdict

What it does well: the sampled Dutch spellings and glosses are correct (maart/March, vijf/five, goedemorgen/Good morning), and every card has audio and an image. The cards are clean and uncluttered. What it does badly: it is a bare word list, and 189 of 190 measured notes are single words or short phrases. The only full sentences in the sample are stock phrases such as 'Leuk je te ontmoeten.' and 'Ik ben...(naam)'. Frequency is poor: only 7% of the top 1,000 Dutch words are taught, and the 40 most common words, including de, van, en, niet, and ik-type function words, never appear. Rare items such as lamsvlees (rank 13,303) show up early, around the 23% mark. The sampled nouns carry no article, so you never learn de or het. The 202 cards are really 101 words entered twice, once per direction, in shuffled order (the author suggests random order in the deck options). Some cards also carry promotional text, such as 'View the latest special offer for DutchPod101.com' on the back of the Goodbye card and 'This material is courtesy of dutchpod101.com' on the front of the 'body' card.

Use it only as a short supplement if you want to learn the days, months, numbers, basic greetings and a few concrete nouns with pictures and sound. Do not use it as your main deck, and do not expect it to help you read or build sentences. If you want grammar, sentence practice or the most common Dutch words, pick a sentence-based or frequency-ordered deck instead and keep this one, at most, as a side list.

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Number 2 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 1,092 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2019

A chapter-ordered Dutch vocabulary list from a textbook, with audio on every card but almost no sentences, so it works as a companion to the course and not as a stand-alone way to learn.

Verdict

The deck does a few things well. The opening is strongly high-frequency: 94 of the 100 most common Dutch words are taught, and 81% of the first tenth of new words are in the top 1,000. Dutch nouns carry their articles ("de rug", "het gezicht"), verb forms point back to a lemma ("gedaan (doen)", "geholpen (helpen)"), and every note has a sound file. The weaknesses are about content. Only 4% of notes are sentences, so nothing shows you a word in use. Many glosses were lifted from the textbook's sentences and read wrong on their own: "gekregen" = "had", "jongen (het jong)" = "litter", "nog" = "as well", and "nemen contact op" / "(contact opnemen)" split across two cards as "contact / get in" and "touch". Coverage past the opening is thin, at 49% of the top 1,000 words and 34% of the top 2,000. Common words such as "door", "worden", "wij", "zij", "waarom" and "vrouw" are never taught, while topic words like "groenteboer", "andijvie" and "bovenwoning" show up early.

Use it if you are working through Nederlands in gang and want a chapter-by-chapter drill of its word lists, with native-style audio and the option to filter by Hoofdstuk. Do not use it as your main route to Dutch. It teaches no grammar and shows no usage, and a learner who trusts the bare glosses will pick up some wrong meanings. If you are not using this textbook, a frequency-based or sentence-based deck will serve you better.

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Number 6 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 2,957 notes · audio on 100% · updated April 2018

A 2,957-word Dutch vocabulary list from the textbooks De Opmaat and De Sprong, with audio on every note but shuffled study order and no example sentences, so it works as a reference pool rather than a course.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are accuracy and sound. In the sample, spellings and de/het articles are correct and the English glosses are sound, and every note has a recording (I can't judge the audio quality). It also covers 74% of the top 1,000 Dutch words and 59% of the top 2,000. Its weaknesses are structural. The opening cards are #1 'schakelen' (to change gear), #4 'de beeldhouwer' (the sculptor) and #18 'musiceren', while 'er', 'jij', 'mee' and 'vier' are never taught. The new-word rate stays at 54-65% in every tenth, so a learner never meets a gentler stretch. There are no example sentences, only 34 of 2,956 measured notes have four or more words, and the tags are the only link to the textbooks. The study order scrambles the textbook themes: #740-749 jump between Thema03a, Thema02b, Extra::Thema02 and Thema05a. Words like 'het probleem' and 'het kind' sit next to 'de krantensector' with no logic.

Use it if you already work through De Opmaat or De Sprong and want a vocabulary-only companion you can filter by theme tag, or if you are an intermediate learner who wants a large pool of words with audio to supplement other study. Skip it if you are a true beginner expecting a guided A1 path, or if you want to learn how Dutch works in sentences. Without the textbooks beside it, you get isolated words with no context, and the A1-B1 label does not describe the order you would actually meet them in.

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sentence deck · A1-B1 · 3,731 notes · no audio · updated August 2012

A 3,731-card Tatoeba sentence deck with a sound difficulty ramp and mostly usable Dutch, but with no audio, no grammar teaching and a handful of real errors, so it works as supplementary reading practice only.

Verdict

The ordering is the deck's strength. The new-word rate falls from 27.9% to about 9% by the halfway point and stays near 8%, and 87% of sentences add at most one new word. The opening runs from "Bedankt!" and "Ik ben moe." to full sentences like "Ze keek omhoog naar het plafond." with only a gradual rise in length, and all of the 100 most common Dutch words appear early. The weaknesses come from the source. Tatoeba gives you unconnected sentences with no dialogue, theme or explanation. The sample shows Belgian and archaic forms ("Zult ge thuis blijven?", "Ge moet uw best doen", "Indien Tom..."), a few outright mistakes ("Ik heb het vergeten", "omdat je niet heb geluisterd", "Ik haat politiek" with no final period), and loose translations such as "Bedankt!" as "Cheers!" and the proverb "Zoals het klokje thuis tikt..." as "There is no place like home." Some rare words arrive early (kaviaar at 2% of the deck, doodop at 9%), and the end of the deck runs to 14-18 word sentences that go well past B1. Top-1,000 coverage is 78%, so it will not give you the core vocabulary alone. There is no audio, no images and no grammar guidance.

Use this if you already have a textbook or course that supplies grammar and pronunciation, and you want a large pool of short, mostly natural sentences to read and recognize. Skip it if you want a first-course deck with audio and a deliberate structure, or if you need confidence that every card is standard Netherlands Dutch. Check any card that looks odd before you memorize it, because the errors are scattered and nothing in the deck flags them.

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Number 4 in our ranking. Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 1,090 notes · audio on 100% · updated February 2022

A 1,090-card Dutch word list with audio on every card, sorted by topic; useful as a pronunciation-backed vocabulary supplement to a course, but it does not work as a way to learn Dutch on its own.

Verdict

The deck is consistent and clean. Every note has an audio file, nouns carry their article ("de tulp", "het huis", "het mes"), and the glosses in the sample are correct. The weaknesses are structural. Only 15 of 1,080 measured notes are sentences of four or more words, so you never see a word in use. The order follows topics, not frequency or difficulty. The first 25 cards run through adjectives and include "de tulp" and "stout" (naughty), while "een", "de", "het" and "hallo" only arrive around card 546 to 554. Coverage of common Dutch is thin: 46% of the top 1,000 words and 33% of the top 2,000. Words such as "te", "er", "aan", "jaar", "mij", "hem" and "graag" are never taught, while "stroopwafel", "hagelslag", "oliebol" and "klomp" are. Cards are recognition only, Dutch to English, and some glosses are loose, such as "zacht" as "soft, slow" and "hard" as "hard, fast".

Use it if you already follow a structured Dutch course, such as the LearnDutch.org lessons it comes from, and want audio flashcards for the words you meet there. It also suits a learner who likes topic clusters and is comfortable adding their own context. Skip it if you are a true beginner who wants a guided path, if you want to learn grammar or reading from sentences, or if you need the most common few thousand Dutch words in a sensible order.

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vocabulary list · A1-A2 · 296 notes · audio on 100% · updated July 2023

A 296-note word list pulled from the Jip & Janneke children's stories, with audio on every card but no sentences and a vocabulary chosen by plot, so it works only as a companion to the books.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well: each card has a single word, a short English gloss and a recording, so the recall task is clear, and the tags let you study one story at a time. It does little else. In the sample, 285 of 291 measured notes are single words or short phrases, with no example sentences and no grammar notes. Words come in story order, not by usefulness. The deck teaches 148 of the 1,000 most common Dutch words and none of the 40 most common (de, een, en, te, met, die, maar, hij). Meanwhile buurmeisje is card 11, akelig is card 19, and servet, uitlachen, krent and teentje turn up within the first third. Inflected forms are glossed loosely: 'Hielp' is 'Helped', 'Gezeten' is 'Sat', and 'Woonde' is 'To have lived somewhere', which mixes tenses and infinitives with no pattern shown. The sample also has errors: 'Sctaren' for scissors, 'Mervrouw', 'Tabelcloth', and 'Waar' glossed only as 'True'. The tags also show the last notes (#282-296) back in Story01, so the order is not strictly chronological. Because this is a sample, there may be more of these errors than I can point to.

Use it if you are reading or listening to the Jip & Janneke stories and want to pre-teach or review their nouns and verbs, and you can already read basic Dutch or are working with a textbook. Do not use it as your main A1-A2 course. It will not teach you to build or understand sentences, and it skips the function words that make up most of everyday Dutch. A true beginner would be learning rare words like 'Servet' and 'Kappersmanteltje' while still unable to say 'and' or 'the'.

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Number 8 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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sentence deck · A1-A2 · 3,001 notes · audio on 17% · updated February 2023

A 3,000-card Dutch sentence deck that moves from two-word fragments to short spoken sentences with very few new words per card; it is worth studying as a drill for the first 500 words, but not as a complete course.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well: almost every sentence adds at most one new word, and 94 of the 100 most common Dutch words arrive early. The Dutch in the sample is natural and correctly spelled. Late cards like "Je doet het geweldig." and "Ik bel je later." are usable spoken lines. The weak points are the opening and the missing context. The first third is mostly context-free fragments and template frames ("Een wat?", "De wat?", "Van wat?", "Met wat?"), which teach little. Nothing explains grammar, nothing ties sentences to a scene or source, and only 500 of 3,001 notes have audio. There are no images. The whole deck uses just 502 distinct words, so it covers 38% of the top 1,000 Dutch words. After a long plateau with almost no new vocabulary, new words resume around the 70% mark, including odd colloquial items such as "kolere" and "hoepelen".

Use it if you already have a textbook or course for grammar and want a large pile of short, high-frequency sentences to read and say aloud. It suits an A1 learner who wants cheap, steady repetition and is willing to delete the low-value fragments. Skip it if you want to learn Dutch from scratch with explanations, if you need native audio on every card, or if you expect real-world vocabulary breadth. Also skip it if you learn best from dialogues or stories. The deck stops at roughly a 500-word vocabulary and does not reach the A2 it states.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 1,904 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2020

A 1,904-card Dutch word list with native-speaker audio on nearly every card, useful as a supplementary frequency-ish vocabulary source but not as a course and not worth studying as-is.

Verdict

The deck does two things well. Its opening is sound: in the measurements, 96 of the 100 most common Dutch words are taught, mostly in the first quarter, and the first three tenths of the deck are 70-99% top-1,000 vocabulary. Audio is on 1,900 of 1,904 notes, and the cards that carry an example give short everyday lines such as 'Mijn vader eet niet veel fruit.' and 'Bedankt voor je cadeau.' The problems start after that. Every card is a single word or short phrase, and about half the sampled cards are a bare gloss ('het schip' / 'ship', 'behalve' / 'except'). Where there is an example, it sometimes illustrates a different word sense: 'heet' is glossed 'hot' but the example is 'Ik heet Tom', and 'naar' shows the same 'een nare smaak' line twice, which is about 'nare', not 'naar'. Some glosses are rough ('vervelen' = 'to be boring'). Ordering drifts after the first third: tenths 4 to 8 are only 10-24% top-1,000 words and include 'bloes', 'groenteman' and 'aldoor', while 'worden', 'doen', 'twee' and 'dag' are never taught. The deck then ends by restarting with 'ik', 'je', 'het', 'de', 'dat', 'een'. The card layout also suffers from shifted fields. The English gloss sits in a field called 'Lidwoord', the 'Back' field is empty, the template never shows the Example sentence field, and some cards print raw numbers like '4750114' or YouTube links on the answer.

Use it if you are a beginner or early-intermediate learner who already has a course or textbook and wants a pile of audio-backed vocabulary to drill passively alongside it, and you are willing to spend an hour cleaning the note type. Skip it if you want a structured path, grammar explanation, sentences you can learn from, or a dependable frequency-ordered core. You will meet the right 300 words early, then a mixed middle, and you will still need other material for common words the list leaves out.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 2,904 notes · no audio · updated February 2026

A 2,904-note Dutch word list ordered by spoken frequency, aimed at intermediate learners, with machine-generated example sentences that contain too many errors to trust blindly; study it only as a checked supplement, not as a first resource.

Verdict

The ordering is the deck's strength. Notes run from about 50 fpm down to 5 fpm, and 97% of sentences add at most one new word. Most examples are short and readable, for example "De rivier stroomt door het dal." and "Kinderen hebben een grote fantasie." The sampled cards also show a steady rate of faults. Dutch is ungrammatical in places: "Zij hatt de koude winters", "in het donkere kamer", "een lekkere ijsje", "na de verlies van zijn vriend". Some sentences are nonsense or mistranslated: "Hij zuigt de leegste fles in huis leeg", "toen ze de nieuwe leerde" for hearing the news, "They have made the appointment" for afmaken. Some cards contradict themselves: Het kleed is glossed "Rug" while its examples translate it as "dress", and the card for aankunnen has examples that all mean "can't stand". The deck is also not a core-vocabulary deck. It teaches 16% of the 1,000 most common Dutch words, and van, een, en, ik and hebben never appear. By the last third, 67-73% of new words rank past 5,000, and words like smeerlap, hufter, kreng and moordwapen pile up. Audio is absent by the measurements: they count no sound files. The opening sample does show Sound fields on four cards (#8, #9, #23, #24) with filenames, which I can't judge. Treat audio as at most a few experimental cards.

This deck suits a learner who already has the basics (roughly A2 and up) and wants to widen their recognition vocabulary from subtitle-style frequency. You need to be able to notice when an example sentence looks wrong and to edit the note when it does. It is a poor choice for a beginner, because it skips the grammar words and the first thousand common words and offers no grammar sequence. It is also a poor choice if you want accurate model sentences to copy, or any listening or speaking practice.

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mixed · B1-B2 · 2,089 notes · no audio · updated March 2026

A 2,089-note companion to the Nederlands in Actie textbook, with accurate content and good tricky-word and grammar cards, but silent, image-free and ordered by chapter rather than difficulty.

Verdict

In the sample the content is careful: I found no wrong translation, gender or conjugation. Most examples read like real text, such as "Dat hij toevallig ook biologisch is, is «mooi meegenomen»". The tricky-word cards carry a useful «Pas op:» note on words whose meaning shifts, like voorkomen (to prevent, inseparable, vs. to happen, separable) or lastig. The grammar strand has English explanations and signal-word cues, for example «Nadat» triggering plusquamperfectum. The weak points are pacing and selection. The first cards pack 4 to 6 unknown words per sentence ("Mijn persoonlijk grootste droom heb ik «bereikt»" has 5 of 7 first seen), and the new-word rate starts at 37% before settling under 10% from part 7. Order follows textbook chapters, not frequency: 25% of the top 1,000 Dutch words are never taught (daarom, nieuws, zeer, mogelijk), while rarer items like koffiezetapparaat and brandnetel appear. Grammar and irregular-verb cards sit at the end, in chapter order that has no connection to the vocabulary around them. There is no audio and no images, and many English-to-Dutch cards are separate notes that repeat the same example sentence as their Dutch-to-English twins.

Use this if you already own or are working through the textbook and want a chapter-tagged review set for its vocabulary, tense drills and principal parts. It suits an upper-A2 to B1 learner who can already read Dutch sentences and tolerates dense, abstract vocabulary. Do not use it as a first Dutch deck, as a frequency-driven course, or as your source for pronunciation. Without the book, the cards give you a sentence but no larger text, and the early order will feel arbitrary.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 211 notes · audio on 97% · updated February 2018

A 211-note Dutch topic word list with audio on nearly every card, but no example sentences and no frequency ordering, so it works only as a supplement.

Verdict

The deck's strength is audio: 205 of 211 notes have a sound file, and the cards are simple word-and-gloss pairs sorted into 12 topic subdecks (weather, clothes, health, family, time). Day and month names, the weather words and the clock phrases ('half vier', 'hoe laat?') are useful. The weakness is the material. Within each theme the order is alphabetical, so the opening is 'saai', 'stout', 'elleboog', 'kont', 'stropdas', while the deck teaches only 85 of the 1,000 most common Dutch words. None of the top 40 function words ('ik', 'het', 'niet', 'en', 'hebben') appear. Example sentence is empty and Example translated holds only the theme label. Only 9 of 210 notes are sentences of four or more words, so nothing teaches word order, verbs or grammar. Genders are patchy: Lidwoord is empty on 'oom', 'vinger' and 'vliegveld'. Sample slips include 'Pasen' with 'de', a promo line in the answer for 'boerenkool', a stray ']' in 'sinaasappel ]' and 'ambulance ]', and '->' in the answer for 'trouwen'.

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Number 3 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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Number 7 in our ranking. Part 1 of a 2-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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mixed · A1-B1 · 590 notes · no audio · updated February 2026

A 590-card English-language Dutch grammar Q&A deck built from dutchgrammar.com, useful as a rule-recall supplement for a learner who already has a textbook, but not a way to learn Dutch on its own.

Verdict

In the sample, the grammar is sound. The plural rules ("de bezems", "de ziektes", "de kinderen"), diminutive endings, article rules and pronoun forms are correct, and the four subdecks (Nouns & Articles, Pronouns, Verbs, Word Order) give you a usable topic split. The teaching is thin, though. Almost every card asks for a rule or a bare form ("mine → de/het mijne", "Mogen PP → gemogen") and almost none has a full Dutch sentence. The opening jumps from adjective endings to syllable splitting, and cards at the end rely on terms no sampled card defines: "the right side", "OV", "EHD-postposition", "finite verb". Prompts such as "Allowed after the right side to stress it? Complement" mean nothing without a diagram or the source page. Some cards are clipped fragments ("The only double vowel at the end is") or have only an image on the back ("Zien Simple Past"). The deck has no audio at all, and it introduces no vocabulary to speak of.

Use it if you are already working through dutchgrammar.com or a grammar textbook and want a first draft of review cards to prune and extend. You will get the most from the plural, diminutive and article cards, which are self-contained. Skip it if you are a beginner looking for a first deck, if you want to build vocabulary or listening skill, or if you expect to learn grammar through example sentences. The word-order cards in particular are unlikely to make sense unless you have studied that material elsewhere first.

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vocabulary list · A2-C1 · 4,516 notes · no audio · updated March 2020

A 4,516-card Dutch-to-English word list with de/het articles but no sentences, audio or images; usable only as a supplement for learners past the basics, and not worth studying as a main deck.

Verdict

The one strong feature is the Lidwoord field, which gives the article for nouns (cello is de, diagram is het, kraakbeen is het), and de/het is hard to pick up elsewhere. The cards are clean and quick to review, and the later words (kraakbeen, loodgieter, zondebok, hamsteren) are real vocabulary an intermediate reader will meet. The order is the problem. The description says the first part is very-beginner vocab, but the first cards are stoottroepen (shock troops), verdelgen (to exterminate), verorberen (to eat up) and tweeledig (twofold). The measurements agree: only 14% of the new words in the first tenth are top-1,000 words, and the share of common words peaks in parts 2 to 4 before falling to 2-3% in the last three tenths. The deck teaches 69% of the top 1,000 words, and the most common Dutch words (ik, hij, ze, dit, nog, deze, zo, dus) never appear. Cards carry one bare gloss and nothing else: no plural, no verb forms, no example, no usage note. Some headwords and glosses are misspelled in the sample (onstpannen, spirngen, expropiate), and idiom cards like "op die fiets" = "ah, I see" have no explanation.

Use this if you already have a core course or frequency deck, you can read some Dutch, and you want a long tail of mid-frequency and rarer words with their articles. Treat it as a pool to mine, not a path to follow. Skip it if you are a true beginner, if you want to speak or understand speech, or if you need to see words used in sentences. The deck gives you no help with how a word behaves, and you should double-check spellings before memorizing them.

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vocabulary list · A1 · 104 notes · audio on 98% · updated April 2022

A 104-card English-to-Dutch word list with audio on nearly every card; it is a small A1 supplement for days, months, numbers and greetings, not a course.

Verdict

The cards are simple and consistent: English on the front, one Dutch word on the back, and audio on 102 of 104 notes (the two without are 'Ja' and 'September'). The themed runs are easy to review: days (#44-50), months (#51-62), numbers 0-10 (#63-74), drinks, body parts and jobs. The weaknesses are in what is taught. The deck covers 71 of the 1,000 most common Dutch words and 19 of the top 100. It never teaches de, van, en, in, op, dat, voor, met, niet, hij, ze, we or mijn, so you cannot build a sentence from it. Only one measured note is a sentence of four or more words ('Leuk je te ontmoeten.'). Nouns have no de/het article, and verbs appear only as bare infinitives such as 'Kunnen' and 'Gaan'. There are also small accuracy and design slips: 'Calendar' is answered with 'Kalendar' (the standard spelling is kalender), 'Hour', 'O'clock' and 'One hour' all answer 'Uur', and 'A/an' and 'One' both answer 'een'. I can only confirm audio is present, not how good it sounds, so play a few cards before relying on it.

Use this if you are a true beginner and want a quick set of recognizable words for greetings, time, numbers and common nouns, ideally alongside a course or tutor that supplies sentences and grammar. Skip it if you expect it to take you to reading or speaking Dutch on its own, or if you want a frequency-ordered core vocabulary. It is a word-pair drill, and most of the repair work is editing a few cards rather than rebuilding the deck.

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Number 1 in our ranking. Part 1 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 915 notes · audio on 99% · updated April 2017

A 915-word Dutch frequency list with native-speaker audio on nearly every card and no sentences, so it works as a supplement for recognizing common words, not as a course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its audio: 903 of 915 notes carry a recording, and the de/het article shows on the answer side for many nouns ("land" becomes "het land"). The first tenth is made entirely of top-1,000 words, and 96 of the 100 most common Dutch words are taught. The weaknesses are structural. Every note is a bare headword with a one-word gloss and no example sentence, even though the note type has empty example fields. The order drifts from frequency: "ik", "je", "het", "de", "een" and "en" arrive at #905-#912, while "worden", "doen", "twee" and "dag" never appear. Glosses are thin and sometimes misleading: "aan", "om" and "naar" are all "to", "zijn" is only "his", "geen" is "no", and "wees" is "orphan" with nothing to flag its other common sense. Two answers carry promo text, one with a typo ("dailye"). Coverage is modest, at 60% of the top 1,000 words and 42% of the top 2,000.

Use this if you already study from a textbook, course or tutor and want a source of audio-backed vocabulary to recognize on sight, and you are willing to ignore the order and patch gaps. Do not use it as your main way into Dutch. It will not teach you how words combine, and a bare gloss will not tell you which sense of "bank" or "beurs" you need. Learners who want sentences, grammar explanations or a guided progression should choose a different deck.

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vocabulary list · A2-C1 · 6,459 notes · audio on 100% · updated May 2025

Nederlanki is a free, frequency-ordered Dutch vocabulary deck with audio and an image on every card, but its AI-written, per-sense sentences contain errors, so it is worth using only as a checked supplement.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are coverage and sequencing: it teaches 971 of the 1,000 most common Dutch words and 1,858 of the top 2,000, and the new-word rate drops from 23% in the first tenth to about 6% and stays there. Every note has audio and an image, and every card shows a full sentence with an English translation. The weaknesses are in the content. Each Wiktionary sense gets its own GPT-generated sentence, which produces ten cards for "stuk", including a klaverjassen card ("de vrouw minder punten waard dan de koning"), and four near-identical museum sentences for "bewaking". The sample contains real errors: "De ei bevindt zich in de zaadknop" (should be het ei), "het nieuwe collega" (should be de collega), and "maakt zich erom zorgen", which is ungrammatical. The headword "klein" is defined as "eenvoudig, normaal", which doesn't match its sentence about a small cottage. Wiktionary's grammar labels are also mistranslated: "inergatief" becomes "intransitive" in one note and "reflexive, inchoative" in another. Only 73% of sentences add at most one new word. The sentences average about 12 words, and some run past 20, which is long for A2. The opening cards ("enorm", "zodat", "uitzien", "netten" as a verb) are not the simplest words, and inflected forms such as "mobiele" and "geweldige" get their own cards. Past roughly the first half, most new words rank beyond 5,000 on the frequency list ("dorsen", "gespan", "afvalcontainer"). There is no grammar syllabus and no connected context, only isolated sentences.

This deck suits an intermediate learner who can already read Dutch sentences and wants a large, audio-backed word list to work through, and who will check anything that looks off. It suits Dutch-to-English recognition and reading-based review better than speaking practice. Complete beginners should not rely on it: the opening is not gentle, the definitions are in Dutch with Wiktionary jargon, and a beginner cannot spot the wrong articles. It also does not fit anyone who wants to learn grammar in a planned order, anyone who needs every example to be trustworthy, or anyone who wants a short deck, since there are 6,459 cards with many duplicate headwords.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 1,680 notes · no audio · updated January 2019

A 1,680-card Dutch-to-English word list with genders and verb principal parts, but unordered, missing most basic function words and containing a few errors, so it works only as a supplement.

Verdict

The best parts are on the cards themselves. Nouns carry their article ("de kooi", "het stukje"), and verb backs give the past forms and the perfect with the right auxiliary ("instappen: stapte in, stapten in / is ingestapt"). The glosses in the sample are mostly short and correct. The weaknesses are in what the deck teaches and in what order. It has no sentences, no audio and no images. The opening 30 cards go "de conducteur", "de kooi", "lichtblond", "de pastoor", "het/de vitrage", while 40 of the 50 most common words on the frequency list never appear, including een, ik, dat, niet, met, hij, ook and moeten. Only 52% of the top 1,000 words are taught, and rare items such as hectiek, trommelvlies and andijvie show up early. Late runs in the sample are alphabetical (komkommer, konijn, koor, koorts, kopen; zon, zoon, zorgen), so nothing orders the words by usefulness. There are also errors: the front "orvereenkomst" is misspelled and has no article, and the "zich verslapen" card gives "Ik me versliept" and "Ik heb me verslaapt", which are wrong. The page says there are no conjugations, yet many verb cards carry them.

Use it as a lookup-style vocabulary supplement, for example to pick up genders and verb forms for words you meet in a textbook that lines up with A0-A2 course vocabulary. Do not use it as a main course or as your first Dutch deck. It will not teach you the words you need first, it gives you no sentences to see them in, and it will not teach you to say or hear anything. Check the verb and reflexive cards against a dictionary before trusting them.

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vocabulary list · B1-B2 · 432 notes · no audio · updated May 2015

Code Plus 3 is a 432-word Dutch-to-English vocabulary list with no sentences, no audio and several wrong entries; it is usable only as a companion to the Code Plus 3 course, not as a standalone deck.

Verdict

The deck's strength is that it is clean and consistent: one note type, no duplicates, no empty fields, and de/het given on every noun ("de rots", "het schip"). The sample also shows topic clusters that match a course chapter, such as sports ("de sjaal", "het stadion", "de supporter", "de tegenstander"), health ("de allergie", "de cardioloog", "de diagnose") and religion ("de preek", "de heilige"). Within those runs the words look alphabetical, so the order follows the source book, not any teaching logic. Its weaknesses are the ones that matter most. Every card is an isolated word with a one-line English gloss, so you never see a verb with its preposition, a word in a sentence or a plural. Selection is uneven: the first card is "de overnachting" (rank 11,076 on the frequency list), and the file flags 124 words as rare for where they appear, including "uitwissen", "schouderblad" and "cardioloog". The deck teaches only 61 of the 1,000 most common Dutch words. There are also real errors. "uitwissen" is glossed "excellent", and "alsog" and "ondtdekken" look like misspellings of "alsof" and "ontdekken". "belasen" glossed "to load" looks like a slip for "beladen", and "a pitty" is misspelled. Some glosses are loose: "het beeld" is "sculpture", "het bestuur" is "administration", "de indeling" is "planning" and "halen" is "to pass". The file's own notes also flag "de moelte" and "het topput", though neither appears in the sample I saw.

Use it if you are already working through Code Plus 3, you read Dutch at roughly B1, and you want a quick recognition list that you will check against your textbook and a dictionary as you go. Skip it if you want a deck that teaches Dutch by itself. It has no sentences to learn from, no pronunciation support, and no reliable way to tell which entries are correct without checking them. Beginners and anyone who needs speaking or listening practice will get little from it, and a learner who trusts every gloss will pick up at least a few wrong forms.

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sentence deck · A1-B2 · 1,961 notes · audio on 100% · updated December 2019

A 1,961-note Tatoeba sentence deck for Dutch, with audio on every note and a mostly gentle difficulty ramp, worth studying as a listening and reading supplement but not as a course.

Verdict

The deck's best feature is its ordering. In the sample, notes start with one-word greetings (Echt?, Bedankt!, Hallo.) and move through short frames like "Ik ben student" and "Ik heb keelpijn" to long sentences. Across the deck, 71% of sentences add at most one new word, and the new-word rate falls from 41% to about 12%. Every note has audio, and each note makes three cards: reading, listening and production. The top 100 Dutch words are all taught. The weaknesses come from the source: a pool of Tatoeba sentences ordered by MorphMan, not written for teaching. Proverbs sit among plain sentences, for example "Het hinkende paard komt achteraan", and "Mijn naam is haas" is an idiom with no English line at all. Rare words appear early, such as rechtshandig at 8% of the deck and aalmoes and voedselvergiftiging later on. Only 70% of the top 1,000 words and 54% of the top 2,000 are covered, and common words like zoeken, informatie and vooral never appear. There are no grammar notes, and the last tenth averages 14 words per sentence, with literary sentences of 30 or more words such as the "teckel en een vuilnisbakkenras" sentence. About 59% of notes lack a field that most notes fill, and in the sample the English line is sometimes missing, for example on notes 987, 989 and 1473.

Use this if you already have a first grammar foundation, can tolerate a few odd sentences, and want lots of native audio for listening practice and for seeing known words in varied sentences. It suits an intermediate learner more than a true beginner, and it works best next to a textbook or course. Skip it if you want a structured path, explained grammar, a frequency-based vocabulary core, or a translation on every card. The A1-B2 label overstates it: the early cards are A1 level, but the rest is whatever Tatoeba contributors happened to record.

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sentence deck · A1-B2 · 12,106 notes · audio on 100% · updated November 2018

A frequency-ordered Dutch sentence deck with audio on every card, useful for early listening practice but padded with duplicates, loose translations and a rare-word tail that makes the second half a poor use of time.

Verdict

The ordering works. In the measurements, 97% of sentences add at most one new word, the new-word rate stays between 2.6% and 4.5% through the first six tenths, and the top 100 Dutch words are all taught early ("Ik hou van je.", "Heb je een auto?"). Sentences average 6.6 words and are mostly short and usable. Every note has a sound file, though I can't judge the recordings. The weak points are in the material. The same Dutch sentence is repeated with different English renderings: "Ik denk dat het waar is." appears three times in a row, and "Dat kan niet waar zijn." fills five of the last notes. Some pairs are mismatched or broken. "Ik weet van waar hij is." is translated "I know where he comes from", "Ik wou dat ze hier deze avond kwam" is translated "I wanted her to come here this evening", "I think it true." is a typo, "De dokter schreef medicijnen voor voor de patiënt" has a doubled word, and "Je moet hiervan vinden als een grote verbetering" is not natural Dutch. Nothing explains grammar. There is no context beyond isolated sentences. Coverage thins quickly: 88% of the top 1,000 words but only 76% of the top 2,000, and common written-register words such as echter, waarbij, waardoor and daarnaast never appear. In the last third, over half of the new words come from outside the top 5,000, including ochtendgloren, steenworp and banketbakker.

Use this as a listening and recognition drill for the first 3,000 or so cards, alongside a course or grammar book that tells you why the sentences work. After that the new-word rate climbs to 7-8% and the vocabulary drifts toward the rare, so the later cards pay back less per review. Do not use it as your only resource, and do not trust it as a model of correct Dutch or English without checking odd cards. It is a poor fit if you want grammar explanations, topic-grouped vocabulary, dialogues, or the written-news vocabulary a B2 learner needs, despite the stated A1-B2 range.

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Number 9 in our ranking. Part 2 of a 2-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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sentence deck · A1-B1 · 380 notes · no audio · updated January 2018

A 380-note Dutch sentence deck of short, usable everyday lines that jumps between topics with no grammar order and carries a few errors, so it works as supplementary reading practice, not a main course.

Verdict

The sentences are short (about 5 words), natural and mostly useful: "Hebt u een auto?", "Kun je dat herhalen?", "Dat spreekt voor zich." Nearly all of the top 100 Dutch words are taught (86 of 100). But the build is loose. The opening cards pile on new words (#15 has 8 of 11 words new), and across the deck only 42% of sentences add one new word or fewer. After the first 100 words, vocabulary follows lesson themes instead of frequency. The deck teaches "goesting", "frituren", "giraffe", "overgrootvader" and "chocomelk" but never "ook", "dus", "waarom", "misschien" or "ja". Errors appear in the sample: "Hij wilt haar nooit meer zien" and "Het hondje wilt niet in bad" (should be "wil"), and "Dank u voor wel de uitnodiging" (scrambled). The deck has no audio, no images, no grammar notes and no lesson context. It uses the stock Basic (and reversed) template.

Use it if you already have a Dutch course or grammar book and want extra sentences to read, and you can spot and fix mistakes. It also suits learners who like Belgian-flavored Dutch, since several cards are marked (BE). Skip it if you want a first course, need guided grammar, want audio, or would trust every card as written. The "Assimil" name promises more structure than the cards show, and the shared-deck page says only that the sentences are loosely based on Assimil vocabulary.

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vocabulary list · C1-C2 · 238 notes · no audio · updated May 2020

A 238-word list of rare Dutch words with one-line Dutch glosses, no sentences and no audio; it is only worth studying if you are an advanced reader who accepts that and will repair the typos yourself.

Verdict

The deck does one thing: it gives you a short monolingual gloss for rare, mostly Latinate words, such as "bilateraal: tweezijdig", "hegemonie: alleenheerschappij" and "empirisch: berustend op ervaring". The measurements agree that it targets rare vocabulary: 167 of its 239 distinct words are not on the 24,498-entry frequency list at all, and only 2 of the top 1,000 words appear. The cards are clean and the glosses are mostly sound. What it lacks is everything around the word. There are no example sentences, so you never see how "navenant" or "optornen" behaves in a clause. The order is also not a progression. The sample shows alphabetical runs that restart (b-e at the opening, m-o near 25%, a-c near 50%, a-b at the close), and fairly common words like "geschil: conflict" and "authentiek: echt, oorspronkelijk" sit among oddities like "peigeren" and "outillage". In about 90 sampled notes there are visible slips: "onmiddelijk", "docterstitel", "vraatzuch", and the garbled "op bestraffing betrekkend hebben". Some glosses are loose, such as "ongegeneerd: erg onfatsoenlijk".

Use it if you already read Dutch comfortably, want to meet some academic and literary vocabulary, and are willing to treat each card as a first pass that you check against a dictionary. It suits a native or near-native speaker who just wants to see which of these words they do not know. Do not use it as a main course or as a path to B2. It teaches none of the 40 most frequent Dutch words, no grammar, no usage and no pronunciation, and a sample of 238 words from compiled online lists will not cover any particular text you want to read.

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sentence deck · A1-B1 · 90 notes · audio on 54% · updated September 2022

A 90-note sample of sentences taken from the Routledge frequency dictionary, covering only its top 75 or so headwords and held back by ungraded sentences, so it is not worth studying as a course.

Verdict

The deck follows one clear rule: headwords run in frequency order from de, en, in, van, and the sentences are natural Dutch, not textbook filler. That is where the value stops. The sentences are not graded to the word they teach. In the sample, only 11% add one new word or fewer, and the new-word rate stays around 35% even in the last tenth. An A1 card like #4 teaching van reads 'Zijn ogen zijn sluw als die van een roofdier', with sluw ranked about 16,000 on the list. #16 teaches niet with zaklamp, and #67 teaches wij with bijkeuken. Grammar is never explained, and the 'b)' sense markers are the only structure. There are also visible errors: a typo in #28 ('zij we op mij'), a wrong gloss in #51 (wat glossed as 'he'), #66 (krijgen glossed 'to say') and #62 (the Word field reads 'zivh'). In #76 and #77 the English translation sits in the Audio field and Back is empty. Audio is on 54% of notes, and I can't judge its quality. There are no images.

The deck is only useful as a supplement for a learner who already has some Dutch, can read through a hard sentence to find the headword, and wants real-corpus examples of very common function words. It is a poor choice as a first deck. A beginner meets sluw, roofdier, bijkeuken, plantsoen and nauwlettend alongside en and in. It also covers little: 234 of the top 1,000 words, and it leaves out hoe, waar, hier, ja, altijd and waarom. A learner who wants to be building usable Dutch is better served by a deck with graded sentences.

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Number 10 in our ranking. Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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minimal pair drill · A1-B1 · 213 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2024

Pronunciation trainer: minimal pairs for dutch sounds.

A free, well-organized ear-training deck of 213 Dutch minimal pairs with audio and images on every note, useful for hearing sound contrasts but not for learning vocabulary, sentences or grammar.

Verdict

The deck does one job and does it cleanly. Every note puts two contrasting words side by side with audio, and the contrast is bracketed, as in b[oo]t / b[ou]t, gr[uu]r / g[eu]r and [g]oud / [h]out. The 46 sound-pair subdecks let you drop contrasts you already hear. Audio and images are on 213 of 213 notes, and spelling, brackets and IPA are mostly right in the sample. The weaknesses come from the format. There are no sentences, no translations and no context. Words were picked to make a contrast, not because learners need them: the measurements show only 19 of the 1,000 most common Dutch words. The opening card, chiffon / sifon, is an odd first thing to meet. Order is by sound pair, with consonants first and the ui/uu/eu vowels last, not by difficulty. I saw a few slips: weer / veer is transcribed [ʋ_ɪː_r] / [v_ɪː_r] where the vowel looks wrong, [y]ang is not a Dutch word, and note #208 has a stray backslash in its image field. The back of the card relies on scripts I could not see, so I cannot confirm how the answer is graded.

Use this if Dutch vowels and a few consonants are hard for you to hear, such as ui/eu/uu, ou/oo, g/h or w/v, and you already know enough Dutch that the words are not a hurdle. It works best next to a main course, a few minutes a day, with the easy subdecks deleted. Skip it if you are a true beginner who wants a first vocabulary, if you want sentences or grammar, or if you need the meaning of each word spelled out. There is no translation field, so the pictures and your own knowledge carry the meaning.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 1,024 notes · no audio · updated January 2019

Article drill: de or het for 1,024 nouns, with no translations.

A 1,024-card Dutch de/het drill with no meanings, sentences or audio, worth using only as a supplement to other study.

Verdict

The deck does one thing and the answers are mostly reliable. Each card shows a bare noun ("lepel", "oefening") and the back gives de or het. Grading is instant, and the sampled answers I could check were correct, including the awkward ones like "het journaal", "het leger" and "de cake". The problems are everything around that one fact. There is no translation, no example, and no hint of the patterns that predict gender, such as -ing, -tie or -heid giving de. The order is mostly arbitrary: the opening runs "opa, zien, draad, vergardering, lepel", and later stretches like #769-778 (invloed, jenever, jeugd, journaal, juwelier, kabaal) are alphabetical runs rather than a frequency or topic sequence. Vocabulary choice is weak for a stated A1-B1 level. The deck covers only 27% of the 1,000 most common Dutch words, yet includes rarities such as "boormachine", "accijns" and "dressoir". The sample also shows slips: "vergardering" looks like a misspelling of "vergadering", "zien" as a het noun is an odd entry for a beginner, and "pak" has an empty back.

Use it if you already know what most of these nouns mean and want extra repetition on articles. It suits an intermediate learner who keeps making de/het mistakes in speech or writing. Do not use it as a first vocabulary deck or as your only Dutch resource. A beginner gets no meanings, no sentences and no sound, so the nouns will not stick and the articles will be memorized in isolation.

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