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