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De or het camera?

de camera

camera

/ˈkaː.mə.raː/

Forms

Singular
de camera
Plural
de camera's
Diminutive
het cameraatje

Why de?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de camera is learned together with the word.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de camera's whatever the singular takes.
  • Every diminutive takes het: het cameraatje.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. camera

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