100 Tranen
Qlas, Antoon & Boef
How to study this song
The card for “100 Tranen” is built from 109 study entries at B1+: 30 Dutch words, 30 adjectives and 49 verb forms. Start with the glossary: hart, tranen and eigenwaarde come up again and again, so they are the ones to know first. It is unusually descriptive — 30 adjectives alongside 30 everyday words — so expect colour rather than plot. At this level part of the list will already be familiar; the rest is what closes the gap.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| NL | EN | ES | IT | FR | PT | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hart | heart | corazón | cuore | cœur |
What this song teaches you
Level · B1+
- Vocabulary words
- 30
- Adjectives
- 30
- Word combos
- 16
- Expressions
- 23
- Verb forms
- 50
- Quiz questions
- 35
Background
About the song
«100 Tranen» («100 Tears») is a Dutch-language rap single by Qlas, Antoon and Boef, released on Friday 18 September 2026. It brings together three artists who rarely appear on the same track: Qlas, one of the faces of Dutch drill; Antoon, the young singer from Hoorn who was the most-streamed artist in the Netherlands in 2022; and Boef, one of the most successful Dutch rappers of the past decade. Dutch music media presented the collaboration as a meeting of three hitmakers with very different audiences, and the charts answered within days.
The song is a sequel. Earlier in 2026, Qlas scored his first solo number one with «Waar Was Je» («Where Were You»), a song about a relationship he describes as toxic. According to the Dutch music site Puna, «100 Tranen» continues that story: the relationship is over, and the narrator looks back at what is left of it. Where the first song asked questions, this one counts the damage.
The chorus describes a man who smiles in public while he feels empty inside. He admits that he was never really himself in the relationship, that his self-esteem has worn away and that he got many things wrong, but he refuses to keep looking back. The title comes from his central image: he cannot cry, yet if he could, there would be a hundred tears. The verses fill in the picture with small, everyday scenes: photos deleted from a phone, a last message that is already weeks old, a number still saved on speed dial that he will not call, a former partner who keeps an eye on him through anonymous accounts after he blocked her. One verse accuses her of treating his money as an endless supply; another ends with the confession that the failure is, in the end, his own fault. The tone swings between pride and regret, and that mixture is what makes it work as a break-up song.
Antoon is known above all as a singer and Qlas and Boef as rappers, and the song combines a chorus written to be sung with rapped verses in the quick, conversational style of Dutch street rap, full of short sentences, interjections and brand names. That blend of rap and pop has become the dominant sound of the Dutch charts in recent years.
Qlas, born Luciano, first became known as one half of the duo Qlas & Blacka, which helped bring drill to a wide Dutch audience; their album «Project 24 – Volume 1» (2020) reached number one in the Dutch Album Top 100. Antoon (Valentijn Antoon Remmert Verkerk, born in Hoorn on 11 February 2002) broke through in 2020 when «Hyperventilatie» went viral on TikTok; «Vluchtstrook», with Kris Kross Amsterdam and Sigourney K, became the most-streamed single of 2022 in the Netherlands, and in January 2026 he released «Tot het eind van mij», an album dedicated to his late mother. Boef (Sofiane Boussaadia) was born on 28 February 1993 in Aubervilliers, near Paris, to Algerian parents, grew up in Eindhoven and Alkmaar, and became a star after posting his first sessions on YouTube in 2015.