Dutch–English parallel text
Het is een grapje
It Is a Joke
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Het is zeven uur in de ochtend. Mevrouw Berg staat bij de trap.
It is seven o’clock in the morning. Mrs Berg stands at the stairs.
“Dit is je baan,” zegt ze. “Allemaal. Gebruik heet water.”
“This is your job,” she says. “All of them. Use hot water.”
“Hoeveel treden zijn er?”
“How many stairs are there?”
“Vanavond kunnen je handen het zeggen.”
“Tonight your hands can say.”
Het is acht uur. Nina maakt trede twintig schoon.
It is eight o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair twenty.
Het is tien uur. Nina maakt trede vijftig schoon.
It is ten o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair fifty.
Dit hotel is klein, maar het heeft heel veel treden.
This hotel is small, but it has very many stairs.
Max komt binnen. Er is sneeuw in zijn haar.
Max comes in. There is snow in his hair.
Hij loopt de schone trap op. Nu is hij niet schoon.
He walks up the clean stairs. Now they are not clean.
Hij zit op trede tien.
He sits on stair ten.
Mevrouw Berg komt van achter haar balie.
Mrs Berg comes out from behind her desk.
Ze kijkt naar Max. Max kijkt naar mevrouw Berg.
She looks at Max. Max looks at Mrs Berg.
Nina stopt met werken. Ze kent dit. Sara en Max doen dit elke dag.
Nina stops working. She knows this. Sara and Max do this every day.
Sara stopt altijd als eerste.
Sara always stops first.
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