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