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