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De or het boot?

← Dutch words

de boot

boat

/boːt/

Forms

Singular
de boot
Plural
de boten
Diminutive
het bootje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. boat

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