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Note that this is actually pepper, the spice that comes as black or white dried berries to be ground in a peppermill, not peppers, the vegetable typically available in the traffic light colours.
Given the confusion in English, I think it's not ideal that the first sentence where this word appears (at least for me) sets up a context that points to the wrong translation.
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Isn't the traffic light vegetable called "Capsicum" or "Bell Pepper" and not just "pepper"?
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I know them as bell peppers, yes. In the Netherlands these are called paprika.
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In English, yes. In Dutch it's called paprikapoeder. Poeder means powder.
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It's also just "pepper" to many British English speakers I know, including me.
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No. We don't go around confusing these words in English. Piper nigrum is the uncountable noun "pepper"; capsicum is the countable nouns "pepper(s)". It's almost impossible to construct an English sentence where they are confused.
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In a dictation you are supposed to hear which it is. Since the fast voice mispronounces jij as je, use the slow voice to find out which it really is.
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The fast voice doesn't really mispronounce jij and je. I can distinguish them easily.
