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"translation": "What is that?"
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"english": "What do you want to do?",
"text": "(2) Wat wil je doen?",
"translation": "What do you want to do?"
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"text": "(1) Ik weet niet wat ik wil doen.",
"translation": "I don't know what I want to do."
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"english": "You must not touch what you see there.",
"text": "(2) Jij moet afblijven van wat jij daar ziet.",
"translation": "You must not touch what you see there."
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"text": "(1) Geef mij maar alles wat eetbaar is.",
"translation": "Please give me everything that is edible."
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"english": "The most expensive that there was.",
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"english": "He took exactly that which I had wanted.",
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"english": "Something there is walking around.",
"text": "(1) Daar loopt wat rond.",
"translation": "Something there is walking around."
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"english": "That is quite something! [i.e. \"That is quite a lot!\"]",
"text": "(2) Dat is aardig wat!",
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