🇳🇱 Dutch Emergencies & Health
The twelve phrases you hope you'll never need — help, doctor, pharmacy, allergies. Learn them once; they matter most. Read them below — then actually say them: recognising a phrase and producing it out loud are different skills, and only one helps you in the moment.
| English | Dutch |
|---|---|
| Help! | Help! |
| Call the police! | Bel de politie! |
| Call an ambulance! | Bel een ambulance! |
| I need a doctor | Ik heb een dokter nodig |
| The pharmacy | De apotheek |
| The hospital | Het ziekenhuis |
| I feel sick | Ik voel me niet goed |
| It hurts here | Het doet hier pijn |
| I'm allergic | Ik ben allergisch |
| I lost my passport | Ik ben mijn paspoort kwijt |
| My phone was stolen | Mijn telefoon is gestolen |
| It's an emergency | Het is een noodgeval |
How to make these stick
- Say each phrase out loud three times — your mouth learns separately from your eyes.
- Rehearse the scene: imagine the café or the street corner and act out both sides.
- Then use them in a real conversation — Yap gives you a 30-second spoken role-play with an AI tutor that responds, corrects gently, and never judges.
More Dutch phrases
Greetings & BasicsOrdering Food & DrinksAsking for DirectionsNumbers 1–10Shopping & MoneySmall Talk & IntroductionsDays & Telling TimeHotel & Check-in