De or het inkomen?
het inkomen
income
As a noun: Forms
- Singular
- het inkomen
- Plural
- de inkomens
- Diminutive
- het inkomentje
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het inkomen is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de inkomens whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het inkomentje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
What het changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | dit inkomen | deze inkomens |
| that, those | dat inkomen | die inkomens |
| which (the … that) | het inkomen dat … | de inkomens die … |
| our | ons inkomen | onze inkomens |
As a noun: Meaning in English
- income
As a verb: Conjugation
| Person | Present | Past | Perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| ik | kom in | kwam in | ben ingekomen |
| jij, u | komt in | kwam in | bent ingekomen |
| hij, zij, het | komt in | kwam in | is ingekomen |
| wij, jullie, zij | komen in | kwamen in | zijn ingekomen |
- Past participle: ingekomen, with zijn.
- Inkomen is separable: in a main clause the prefix moves to the end, as in “ik kom in”. See where the prefix goes in other sentences.
As a verb: Meaning in English
- to come in
- to warm up when starting an activity
- to understand someone's thought process
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