# Google has Failed Me - Verootje **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 30, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-has-failed-me-verootje/847213 "2020-01-30T04:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-has-failed-me-verootje/847213/21 "2020-02-01T05:56:31Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Google may be an even better friend to you than you know. Typing in “Dutch to English” gives you a translation tool where you can type in what you want translated. Based on my experience with German, which I know a lot better than Dutch, it’s usually correct. > > verootje = “farewell” > > ver ootje = “far away” None of the native Dutch speakers who’ve participated here so far have given those translations, so I’m not convinced the accuracy of it. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-has-failed-me-verootje/847213/22 "2020-02-02T04:53:05Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Google may be an even better friend to you than you know. Typing in “Dutch to English” gives you a translation tool where you can type in what you want translated. Based on my experience with German, which I know a lot better than Dutch, it’s usually correct. > > verootje = “farewell” > > ver ootje = “far away” > Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk Well, either it isn’t correct here, or Dutch has developed some new words since I left which cannot be found elsewhere on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-has-failed-me-verootje/847213/23 "2020-02-04T02:08:54Z")
> [@BartR](#): > > Long time reader, finally registered because I might be able to shed some light on this. Hello **BartR** , and welcome to the Straight Dope! 🙂 > [@BartR](#): > > ‘Vero’ is often used as a short form of the French surname ‘Véronique’ (Veronica), which in Dutch is usually written with a plain ‘e’. ‘Verootje’ is a diminutive from of this, so it means ‘little Vero’. Yeah, a lot of people named “Veronique” and “Veronica/ika” etc. on social media seem to have the username “Verootje”. (But I think you meant “given name” rather than “surname”.) ---
**Author:** ![BartR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@BartR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BartR)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-has-failed-me-verootje/847213/24 "2020-02-04T10:33:22Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Hello **BartR** , and welcome to the Straight Dope! 🙂 > (But I think you meant “given name” rather than “surname”.) Oops, so much for that first impression :-). > [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Google may be an even better friend to you than you know. Typing in “Dutch to English” gives you a translation tool where you can type in what you want translated. Based on my experience with German, which I know a lot better than Dutch, it’s usually correct. > > verootje = “farewell” > ver ootje = “far away” > > Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk I can partly see where that comes from: ‘ver’ is Dutch for ‘far’. I can’t see where the ‘ootje’ part comes in though. ---
**Author:** ![And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/and_his_buzzer_goes/32/377_2.png) [@And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_his_buzzer_goes)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-has-failed-me-verootje/847213/25 "2020-02-04T11:48:03Z")
> [@polar\_bear](#): > > BTW it being the diminutive of the abbreviation for Veronique sounds plausible to me. Exactly, without context that makes the most sense. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-has-failed-me-verootje/847213/26 "2020-02-09T08:17:15Z")
I apologize for asking a question and then not returning, but I had oral surgery, and it was more brutal than I had anticipated. The context of the word Verootje was in a post offering condolences to the family of a member who had passed away. The sentence is as follows, “I want to offer my condolences to your family, until one day, Verootje.” After reading all of the posts here I believe it is a nickname of sorts. Thank you for carrying on without any more input from me, and I apologize again for asking a question and then disappearing. Now that I am reading it without the horrible pain in my mouth, it seems to be rather apparent that it is a name or nickname. It’s amazing how that kind of pain renders me dumber than a rock. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-has-failed-me-verootje/847213.md?page=1)