De or het bloed?
het bloed
blood
/blut/
Forms
- Singular
- het bloed
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het bloed is learned together with the word.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Meaning in English
- blood
- a grave consequence, a high price
- a whole body; especially (plural also (archaic) bloeien in this sense) a (poor) person
Remember bloed with Spreek
Spreek keeps the Dutch words you meet, article included, reviews them with you and then has you use them in a spoken conversation.
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