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De or het breuk?

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de breuk

fracture, break

/brøːk/

Forms

Singular
de breuk
Plural
de breuken
Diminutive
het breukje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. fracture, break
  2. fraction
  3. fault

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