De or het bloed?
het bloed
blood
/blut/
Forms
- Singular
- het bloed
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het bloed is learned together with the word.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
What het changes
| Singular | |
|---|---|
| this, these | dit bloed |
| that, those | dat bloed |
| which (the … that) | het bloed dat … |
| our | ons bloed |
Meaning in English
- blood
- a grave consequence, a high price
- a whole body; especially (plural also (archaic) bloeien in this sense) a (poor) person
Remember bloed with Spreek
Spreek keeps the Dutch words you meet, article included, reviews them with you and then has you use them in a spoken conversation.
FreeiPhone
(opens in a new tab)