De or het essay?
het essay
essay
/ɛˈseː/
Forms
- Singular
- het essay
- Plural
- de essays
- Diminutive
- het essaytje
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het essay is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de essays whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het essaytje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
What het changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | dit essay | deze essays |
| that, those | dat essay | die essays |
| which (the … that) | het essay dat … | de essays die … |
| our | ons essay | onze essays |
Meaning in English
- essay
Remember essay 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.
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