Mouth of the Platte River, 900 Miles above St. Louis
A bilingual Dutch story with sentence-by-sentence English translation. Level: BEGINNER (CEFR). Tap any word in the DuoBook reader for an instant translation.
De boot ligt bij de monding van de rivier de Platte.
The boat sits at the mouth of the Platte River.
Wij zijn negenhonderd mijl boven St. Louis.
We are nine hundred miles above St. Louis.
Het water is breed en beweegt heel langzaam.
The water is wide and moves very slowly.
Ik zie groene bomen op de rivieroevers.
I see green trees on the river banks.
De zon is heet en de lucht is felblauw.
The sun is hot and the sky is bright blue.
Mijn vriend kijkt naar de kaart en glimlacht.
My friend looks at the map and smiles.
Wij reizen morgenochtend verder naar het westen.
We will travel further west tomorrow morning.
Deze lange reis wordt eindelijk spannend.
This long journey is finally becoming exciting.
Vocabulary (Dutch)
- Mouth of the river
- Monding van de rivier
- Bank
- Oever
- To travel
- Reizen
- Journey
- Reis
- Wide
- Breed
- Slowly
- Langzaam
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