De or het verkoudheid?
de verkoudheid
cold (illness)
Forms
- Singular
- de verkoudheid
- Plural
- de verkoudheden
Why de?
- Nouns ending in -heid, -teit, -tie, -sie, -nis, -ij and -schap usually take de.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de verkoudheden whatever the singular takes.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze verkoudheid | deze verkoudheden |
| that, those | die verkoudheid | die verkoudheden |
| which (the … that) | de verkoudheid die … | de verkoudheden die … |
| our | onze verkoudheid | onze verkoudheden |
Meaning in English
- cold (illness)
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