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De or het bank?

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de bank

couch, sofa

/bɑŋk/

Forms

Singular
de bank
Plural
de banken
Diminutive
het bankje

Why de?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de bank is learned together with the word.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de banken whatever the singular takes.
  • Every diminutive takes het: het bankje.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. couch, sofa
  2. bench
  3. place where seashells are found
  4. shallow part of the sea near the coast
  5. a bank (financial institution)
  6. the bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling

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