How to Pronounce 'Graag Gedaan': Dutch Pronunciation Guide

Q: How do you pronounce graag gedaan in Dutch?

graag gedaan is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ˌɣraːx ɣəˈdaːn/. It means “you're welcome.” khraakh khuh-DAAN — three Dutch g-sounds in a row, and the stress on the final DAAN.

How do you pronounce "graag gedaan" in Dutch?

khraakh khuh-DAAN — three Dutch g-sounds in a row, and the stress on the final DAAN.

graag gedaan /ˌɣraːx ɣəˈdaːn/

The phrase has a rising shape: "graag" carries secondary weight, "ge-" is nothing at all, and DAAN takes the peak. Participles built with ge- always push the stress onto the root, so "gedaan" behaves exactly like "gezegd" or "gemaakt."

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gr The hardest opening in the phrase: scraping velar friction immediately followed by an r. Start the friction, keep the airflow going, and let the r emerge out of it instead of restarting the word.

aa The doubled letter marks a long, open "aah" held roughly twice as long as a single a. Dutch vowel length is spelled, not guessed.

g (final) At the end of "graag" the g is fully voiceless — the same rasp as ch. Written g, heard as a hard scrape.

ge- The past-participle prefix: fricative plus schwa, a quick "khuh" with no vowel colour of its own.

daan A clean d, another long "aah," and a final n. This is the only syllable in the phrase with real weight.

Hear it in a sentence

Graag gedaan, geen probleem.

You're welcome, no problem.

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"Graag gedaan, geen probleem" is a small pronunciation gauntlet: four separate g-sounds across four words. If you can say it without pausing to reset your throat, the Dutch fricative has stopped being an obstacle. Note that "geen" here means "not a" — Dutch negates the noun directly rather than saying "there is no problem."

Where English speakers slip

The instinct is to soften the whole phrase into English sounds — "graag" as "grahg" with a hard g, and "gedaan" as "ge-DAWN." Both g's need the continuous rasp, and the aa vowels need genuine length; clipping them to the short a of "cat" changes the word's shape entirely. Learners also tend to voice the final g of "graag," but word-final g in Dutch is always voiceless.