De or het nood?
de nood
emergency, crisis, distress (often used in compounds)
/noːt/
Forms
- Singular
- de nood
- Plural
- de noden
- Diminutive
- het noodje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de nood is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de noden whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het noodje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze nood | deze noden |
| that, those | die nood | die noden |
| which (the … that) | de nood die … | de noden die … |
| our | onze nood | onze noden |
Meaning in English
- emergency, crisis, distress (often used in compounds)
- need
Remember nood with Spreek
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