Master the 470 most essential Dutch A1 words for the Civic Integration Exam (MVV). Explore the 15 exam domains, listen to native audio, and retain vocabulary with Spaced Repetition flashcards.
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Start Vocabulary Practice →Essential greetings, question words, pronouns, and polite phrases.
Days of the week, clock times, the 12 months, and temporal indications.
Counting from 0 to 100, tens, quantities, and basic currency terms.
Conjunctions to build compound sentences, negations, and navigation terms.
Family members, partner, children, and relationship terms.
Rooms in the house, furniture, renting, and living in the Netherlands.
Food, drinks, supermarket vocabulary, checkout, and cooking terms.
Body parts, ailments, making a doctor appointment, and pharmacy terms.
Articles of clothing, colors, trying on sizes, and buying or exchanging clothes.
Trains, buses, trams, bicycles, station check-in, and travel terms.
Talking about the weather, temperature, and the four seasons.
Jobs, job applications, colleagues, salary, and rights in the Dutch workplace.
Children's school, teachers, language courses, homework, and Dutch schooling.
Town hall, passport, BSN, waste sorting, laws, and Dutch civic values.
Receiving mail, letters, email, DigiD, calling, and internet services.
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Start complete vocabulary training →An active vocabulary of 450 to 600 words is expected. Our 15 modules cover the exact core lexicon tested by DUO in Reading and Speaking.
Because the article dictates adjective inflection ("een mooi huis" vs "een mooie auto"), impacting grammar marks in speaking and writing.
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