De or het lamp?
de lamp
lamp
/lɑmp/
Forms
- Singular
- de lamp
- Plural
- de lampen
- Diminutive
- het lampje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de lamp is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de lampen whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het lampje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze lamp | deze lampen |
| that, those | die lamp | die lampen |
| which (the … that) | de lamp die … | de lampen die … |
| our | onze lamp | onze lampen |
Meaning in English
- lamp
- vacuum tube, thermionic valve
Remember lamp with Spreek
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