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