De or het boek?
het boek
book
/buk/
Forms
- Singular
- het boek
- Plural
- de boeken
- Diminutive
- het boekje
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het boek is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de boeken whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het boekje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Meaning in English
- book
Remember boek 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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