De or het bureau?
het bureau
desk
/byˈroː/
Article and plural
- Singular
- het bureau
- Plural (meervoud)
- de bureaus
- Diminutive
- het bureautje
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het bureau is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de bureaus whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het bureautje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What het changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | dit bureau | deze bureaus |
| that, those | dat bureau | die bureaus |
| which (the … that) | het bureau dat … | de bureaus die … |
| our | ons bureau | onze bureaus |
Meaning in English
- desk
- office, office building (especially office buildings for writing and publishing journalism and literature, or the police station as a building)
- agency (government organization, such as a police station: "politiebureau"; a scientific or humanities research institute: "onderzoeksbureau"; political party think tank: "wetenschappelijk bureau")
- company (in design, engineering, journalism, communications, marketing, market/opinion research), agency (doing business for another, such as an advertising agency: "reclamebureau"; a news agency: "persbureau")
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