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I'm Flemish and I use it a lot, actually. "Dat kan mijn reet roesten.", it has a great ring to it.
by 317070 5y ago
I'm Flemish and I use it a lot, actually. "Dat kan mijn reet roesten.", it has a great ring to it.
- WelcomeShorty 5y agoCorrection: Kan me AAN me reet roesten. At least in Amsterdam we use the expression like this.
- wartijn_ 5y agoCorrection: m'n reet. Although many people will use "me" here, that is definitely incorrect. And although I too only know the expression with the word "aan" in it, the translation by jauco at the start of this thread seems to suggest they also use it without that word.
- koonsolo 5y agoI'm from the Antwerp region, and also never heard of that expression. What is actually the Flemish expression for this? "Den boom in" (=up the tree) is the closed one I could find.
- kmm 5y ago"Het kan me niet bommen" maybe? "Bommen"[0] apparently being an otherwise completely unused verb meaning "to strike something giving a hollow sound". 0: https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/bommen https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/bommen
- 317070 5y ago"Kan me geen kloten schelen" is what I would imagine is the closest to the intent of the article. In West-Flanders, we would also say: "'t Is 't klappen nie weird."