Dutch English Dictionary

Nederlands, Vlaams - English

netjes in English:

1. smart


He's smart.
This time he dressed down, having realized that the smart suit would be out of place.
Smart shopping requires careful planning.
Smart people learn from their mistakes.
Sentences bring context to the words. Sentences have personalities. They can be funny, smart, silly, insightful, touching, hurtful.
Lola the cow, Lola the cow, she's smart and she brings trouble, and she goes mooooo.
Smart mob is sometimes perceived as a political danger - mostly in the countries lacking in traditions of democracy.
They're stupid children, what a nuisance, she said. I replied praising them: "What are you saying, They're both smart, with a good memory and a promising future"
He learned Chinese so fast, everyone says he's very smart, that he really has a gift with languages.
It was a pleasure to spend the evening with a smart, funny and beautiful girl like you.
Some smart alecks cut in when I was asking her to marry me.
Karim was dressed neatly in a smart shirt tucked in his pants; he hoped to study engineering.
He came back with enough money to buy a smart flat in a good part of Warsaw.
Do you think it naturally follows that smart people have big egos?
You just can't let things slip around this nonchalantly smart girl.

English word "netjes"(smart) occurs in sets:

Engels 4 concerts and gigs 2

2. neat


Marius is very neat, his shirts are always ironed.
No one is so poor that he cannot afford to be neat.
Her wardrobe was filled with neat piles of clothes.
This is neat.
His cottage is neat and comfortable; moreover, it can accommodate as many as ten people.
There was a neat pile of books in the corner of the room.
She keeps her room neat and clean. A neat person likes everything to be clean and well arranged; I try to be neat, but my husband is a slob.
He was an old man with a big nose, glasses and neat grey hair.
I’d like a bourbon, neat.
Your house is always so neat - how do you manage it with three children? She likes everything neat and tidy. You've got such neat handwriting. They did a very neat job stitching up your knee - there's hardly a scar there.
What a neat car! It's small but roomy - and comfortable!
And he wasn't clean and neat, so I wouldn't let him go.
neater hair
So I decided to give him a little support, and brought some order into neatly stacking the blocks on top of each other
Mrs. Sugimoto always wears neat clothes.

English word "netjes"(neat) occurs in sets:

A3 ENG H2 L2

3. decently


You ought to dress decently.