Inburgering,
one word at a time
What the Dutch integration exams ask of you — and the 40 vocabulary sets behind them, from the survival phrases that keep a conversation alive to the KNM words the society exam is built on.
B1
standard route under the 2021 law
4
skills: reading, listening, writing, speaking
KNM
knowledge of Dutch society
Free to start — no credit card
What the Dutch integration exams are
A set of exams on the route to permanent residence and naturalisation — and, unlike the Luxembourgish Sproochentest, they test writing too.
Language, all four skills
Reading, listening, writing and speaking. The Wet inburgering 2021 made B1 the standard route, with alternative routes for different starting points — your municipality decides which applies to you.
Knowledge of Dutch Society
KNM is its own exam: how things work here — the gemeente, healthcare, school, work, rights and duties. Set 35 below is exactly that vocabulary.
Or Staatsexamen NT2
The separate, higher route at B1 (Programma I) and B2 (Programma II), used for study and professional work. Same vocabulary foundation, a higher bar.
16Word is a vocabulary app, not an examining body. For registration, dates, fees, exemptions and the official rules, go to Inburgeren.nl (DUO) , DUO and Rijksoverheid . Deliberately, you will find no fees or dates on this page — a stale number here would be worse than none.
Where candidates actually get stuck
Almost never on grammar rules. On a missing word — and most often on the ones that hold a conversation together rather than the ones that name objects.
If you can say “kunt u dat herhalen, alstublieft?” instead of freezing, the examiner hears someone managing Dutch. In Flanders the bar is different again — Belgian naturalisation asks A2 — but the vocabulary that gets you there is the same.
16 words a day
One 16-word session a day is roughly 480 words a month passing through active recall — then checked again at 7, 30 and 90 days, so the ones that stick are the ones you keep.
The 40 sets below hold 643 phrases in total.
The inburgering vocabulary path
40 sets, 643 phrases, ordered by exam value — not alphabetically. Tap any set to open it.
Reading a list is not remembering it
This page is free and always will be. What Basic adds is the part that makes vocabulary stay: every topic, every page, real recall, and audio you can imitate.
Every topic and page
All 40 topics and every page — the free trial opens page 1 of Common Verbs. The path above spans housing, work, health, admin, KNM and more.
Unlimited new words each day
No daily ceiling: go as far as the day allows, then let spaced repetition bring the words back on schedule.
Speak your answers
Answer out loud with the microphone instead of typing — the closest thing to the oral exam you can practise alone.
Offline practice
Download your topics and keep going on the train, with no signal at all.
