Learn Dutch: Het vertrouwde pension is de beste plek als honden janken. - The familiar boarding kennel is the best place when dogs whine.

That is a classic false friend! In Dutch, a pension is a boarding house, guesthouse, or kennel (often called a dierenpension for animals). The Dutch word for retirement money is pensioen.

Why does vertrouwd get an -e ending if pension is a het-word?

You only drop the -e on adjectives before het-words if the noun is indefinite (preceded by een, geen, or no article). Because this sentence uses the definite article het, the adjective gets the standard -e ending to become het vertrouwde pension.

Is there a difference between huilen and janken?

Yes! While both mean to cry or weep, janken is the specific word for an animal whining, yelping, or howling. If you use janken for a human, it sounds very derogatory, like bawling or sniveling, whereas huilen is the normal word for human crying.

Why does the verb janken go at the very end of the sentence?

The word als (meaning 'when' or 'if') always introduces a subordinate clause. In Dutch subordinate clauses, the conjugated verb (in this case, janken) gets pushed to the very end of the clause.