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for anyone wondering the reason why Dutch is so much closer to the Scandinavian languages than German is because modern German is specifically High German from the south of the country. it used to be that they spoke low German in the north which is far closer to the scandinavian languages and dutch.
also if you wondering about the names: High and Low come from the elevation of the land, High German comes from parts that sit physically higher up than the parts that Low German comes from