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i am curious, where does it say "whatsapp" in dutch? you don't use international names?

• raarts 9y ago
  The -je suffix in Dutch is commonly used and means 'small'. 'app' is used here as an alias for WhatsApp. I'm also Dutch but I think 'app' is more like an alias for any chat service. WhatsApp is indeed huge though. Texting is basically dead in Europe afaict.
• dansimau 9y ago
  "appje" is the diminuitive form of "app", which is a shortened form of "whatsapp" (referring to a whatsapp message). In English, you would never shorten the phrase "I'll send you a whatsapp" to "I'll send you an app" because the word "app" would be confused with a mobile app. The Dutch still use the word "app" to mean a mobile app; "appje" means a whatsapp. So the diminuitive form allows them to disambiguate.