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