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Short De and Het — The Article in Dutch | ||||||||||||
Dutch has 'de'
2
and 'het'
2
3
for the definite article 'the.'
Plurals always take 'de' and diminutives 'verkleinwoordjes' 2 3 4 (words ending in -je) always take 'het' but there are no other good rules for which words take 'het' — you'll just have to memorize the 'het'-words — about a third of Dutch nouns. 'Het' is often pronounced as " 't " with 'voiceless, unstressed E' (the 'schwa') but it's not often written that way.
The indefinite artice 'a' — Dutch
'een'
is contrary to spelling
rules pronounced
with 'voiceless, unstressed E'
(the 'schwa') and not the 'long E'
you'd expect from the spelling — but it's almost never written
that way as " 'n "
.
De / het is also important with adjectives:
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