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De or het buurt?

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de buurt

neighborhood, part of town

/byːrt/

Forms

Singular
de buurt
Plural
de buurten
Diminutive
het buurtje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. neighborhood, part of town
  2. vicinity, proximity

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