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De or het brug?

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de brug

bridge (construction)

/brʏx/

Forms

Singular
de brug
Plural
de bruggen
Diminutive
het bruggetje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. bridge (construction)
  2. bridge (dental prosthesis)
  3. a substantive connection in a discourse allowing one to move from one subject to another

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