"Tijdens mijn geboorte aten mijn ouders vla."
Translation:During my birth, my parents ate custard.
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Just doing the end test as a Dutch native.. What is this Duo?? lol
On this site http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/vlade you can find that it is connected to all kinds of foreign words that mean flat/broad/wide, because vla(de) used to refer to a flat piece of cake or pie, topped with a custard-like substance. In Limburg, "vlaai" still does mean that (although the topping is usually a fruit preserve instead of custard), but "vla" has become the word for just the topping.
Heel graag gedaan, Aling14! I hope you didn't notice that I didn't answer your question ;) But it seems flan and flan de leche have the same origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A8me_caramel
"During my birth" really? "At my birth" I would consider better because during my birth I guess my mother was too busy...
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My father might have eaten this delicacy, but he shouldn't mention that he did so during the actual birth. Actually, I rather doubt that he ate anything at all during that time. That said, if it is a grammatically correct sentence, it is a valid learning exercise, however odd.
No, it's really "during". Maybe the "I" here is adopted?
At my birth would be bij mijn geboorte.
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Duo weer in de bocht: Apart from a weird sentence (again), "vla" is not the same as "custard".
vla = vla, Duo!
Wrong pronunciation here: the "a" sound at the end of "vla" should be long (as in the word "kaas").
I myself am Dutch too, and I would translate this as: "At the time of my birth, my parents were eating custard." That's fine too right?
