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De or het cultuur?

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de cultuur

culture (practices and beliefs particular to a society or group)

/kʏlˈtyr/

Forms

Singular
de cultuur
Plural
de culturen
Diminutive
het cultuurtje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. culture (practices and beliefs particular to a society or group)
  2. culture (arts, historic heritage and creative media as a sector)
  3. culture (cultivation, tillage of crops)
  4. culture (collective of microorganisms, such as artificially bred bacteria or fungi)

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