* Official language of the Netherlands, Suriname, Aruba, and Curaçao.
* Spoken by around 25 million people worldwide.
* Belongs to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
* Closely related to German, English, and Afrikaans.
* Has three main dialects: Standard Dutch, Flemish Dutch, and Afrikaans Dutch.
* Characterized by its use of compound nouns, which can often combine several ideas into a single word.
* Has a complex system of verb conjugations, which changes the form of the verb based on the subject of the sentence.
* Uses the definite articles "de" and "het" to indicate gender.
* Written with the Latin alphabet, with a few additional characters, such as "ij", "é", and "è".
* Has a rich literary tradition, including works by authors such as Multatuli, Willem Elsschot, and Jeroen Bosch.
* Considered one of the easiest languages for English speakers to learn.