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... Dutch culture than Scottish. Of all the major modern Germanic languages, Dutch is the closest relative of English. The Dutch language contains many French loanwords, though not as many as the English. The German language contains less French loanwords than English or Dutch. For example, the word 'boulevard', a French word integrated in both Dutch and English language, is in German called a 'Prachtstraße'. The word 'saint', a French loanword integrated in English, can be translated by 'sint' in Dutch, which is comparable to the English word. On the contrary, the German word for 'saint' is 'Heiliger', a word completely deviated from English language. This proves that English vocabulary is deeply enrooted in Dutch vocabulary. Many English words have been integrated in Dutch language so profoundly that nowadays, hardly anyone recognizes them as being ´English loanwords´. Some examples of words of English origines that have been integrated in Dutch language ...