De or het dag?
de dag
day (period of 24 hours)
/dɑx/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de dag
- Plural (meervoud)
- de dagen, de daggen
- Diminutive
- het dagje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de dag is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de dagen whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het dagje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze dag | deze dagen |
| that, those | die dag | die dagen |
| which (the … that) | de dag die … | de dagen die … |
| our | onze dag | onze dagen |
Meaning in English
- day (period of 24 hours)
- daytime (time between sunrise and sunset)
- a meeting or assembly with legal or political power, originally convened on a specific day; a diet
- a piece of rope, used to punish sailors with, on the spot or in running the gauntlet
- a line used to fasten young sailors while training boarding a hostile ship or climbing the rigging
Remember dag with Spreek
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