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