6 free Dutch exercises, no sign-up

All six are free, need no sign-up, and take a few minutes each. If you are not sure where to begin, start at the top of this table and work down: it is roughly the order a beginner meets these topics.

Clicking through an exercise once and getting most answers right feels good and teaches you very little. A few small changes make a real difference.

• Say your answer out loud before you choose it. Recognising the right option is easy; producing it is the skill you actually need.
• Read the explanation on the ones you get right too. A lucky guess and real knowledge look identical on the screen.
• Come back in two days. Repeating an exercise after a short gap is far more effective than doing it twice in one sitting.
• Write down what you got wrong. A handful of words on paper beats fifty in an app.

Every Dutch noun takes de or het, and there is no rule that covers all of them. This exercise drills the patterns that do hold, such as diminutives always taking het and plurals always taking de. Read the full guide to de or het

Ik, jij, hij, wij, jullie, and the verb ending that goes with each. It also covers the difference between jij and u, which is a social decision as much as a grammatical one. Read the guide to jij, u and jullie

Heb, hebt, heeft, hebben, including the question form where the -t disappears: heb jij. You need this verb for possession, for fixed expressions like ik heb honger, and to build the past tense. Read the full guide to hebben

Ben, bent, is, zijn, including the question form where the -t drops just like with hebben: ben jij. It also covers the trap where zijn means his: zijn auto is his car. Do this one right after hebben, because you need both verbs to build the past tense. Read the full guide to zijn

The Dutch verb sits in second position, so when you start a sentence with something else the subject moves behind it: Morgen ga ik, never Morgen ik ga. This is the single most common beginner mistake. Read the full guide to Dutch word order

Longer sentences, including what happens after omdat and dat, where the verb moves right to the end. Do this one after word order.

The exercises are one part of what is free here.

• The Dutch grammar guide explains the five rules that matter most for beginners, in plain English.
• The blog covers one topic at a time in depth, from articles and verbs to the inburgeringsexamen.
• Preparing for the exam? DUO publishes free official practice exams on inburgeren.nl, and our exam section explains each part.

Yes. All six (de or het, personal pronouns, hebben, zijn, word order and sentence structure) are free to use, with no account, no email address and no trial period. They are here so you can see how we explain things before deciding whether to buy a course.

Beginner, roughly A1 to A2. They cover the topics that come first in any Dutch course, and the same topics that appear in the inburgeringsexamen at A2.

No. They run in your browser, on a phone or a laptop, and nothing is saved or sent anywhere.

These exercises are online only. The A1 and A2 courses are downloadable PDFs you can print. Most chapters end with links to short interactive online exercises (on Wordwall), so you practise each topic straight after reading about it.

A few minutes daily beats an hour once a week. Repetition with short gaps is what moves grammar from something you understand to something you produce without thinking.