De or het crèche?
de crèche
a day nursery for small children until age 3 in Belgium
/krɛʃ/
Forms
- Singular
- de crèche
- Plural
- de crèches
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de crèche is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de crèches whatever the singular takes.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze crèche | deze crèches |
| that, those | die crèche | die crèches |
| which (the … that) | de crèche die … | de crèches die … |
| our | onze crèche | onze crèches |
Meaning in English
- a day nursery for small children until age 3 in Belgium (Flanders) or age 4 in the Netherlands, when the children begin kleuterschool (nursery school/kindergarten) or, in the Netherlands, basisschool (primary school, which, in the Netherlands, begins at age 4 since August 1985, when kleuterschool was abolished and became a compulsory part of the primary school)
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