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De or het crisis?

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de crisis

crisis

/ˈkri.zɪs/

Forms

Singular
de crisis
Plural
de crises
Diminutive
het crisisje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. crisis
  2. financial crisis

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