Skip to content

De or het kaartje?

het kaartje

ticket, especially a train ticket

Forms

Singular
het kaartje
Plural
de kaartjes

Why het?

  • This is a diminutive, the form ending in -je, and every diminutive takes het.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de kaartjes whatever the singular takes.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

What het changes

SingularPlural
this, thesedit kaartjedeze kaartjes
that, thosedat kaartjedie kaartjes
which (the … that)het kaartje dat …de kaartjes die …
ourons kaartjeonze kaartjes

Meaning in English

  1. ticket, especially a train ticket

Remember kaartje 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.

See what Spreek does

FreeiPhoneDownload on the App Store (opens in a new tab)