De or het baan?
de baan
a job, professional occupation
/baːn/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de baan
- Plural (meervoud)
- de banen
- Diminutive
- het baantje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de baan is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de banen whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het baantje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze baan | deze banen |
| that, those | die baan | die banen |
| which (the … that) | de baan die … | de banen die … |
| our | onze baan | onze banen |
Meaning in English
- a job, professional occupation
- a road, way, path
- a track, lane
- orbit (path of one object around another)
- a job (task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode)
- court, field (place for playing sports or games, in particular non-team ball games)
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