De or het crèche?
de crèche
a day nursery for small children until age 3 in Belgium
/krɛʃ/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de crèche
- Plural (meervoud)
- de crèches
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de crèche is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de crèches whatever the singular takes.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze crèche | deze crèches |
| that, those | die crèche | die crèches |
| which (the … that) | de crèche die … | de crèches die … |
| our | onze crèche | onze crèches |
Meaning in English
- a day nursery for small children until age 3 in Belgium (Flanders) or age 4 in the Netherlands, when the children begin kleuterschool (nursery school/kindergarten) or, in the Netherlands, basisschool (primary school, which, in the Netherlands, begins at age 4 since August 1985, when kleuterschool was abolished and became a compulsory part of the primary school)
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