De or het checker
Whether a Dutch noun takes de or het, with its plural. It knows more than 32,000 nouns from Wiktionary.
When a word is not in the list
- Every plural takes de: het boek, de boeken.
- Every diminutive, the form ending in -je, takes het: de winkel, het winkeltje.
- Endings help with the rest: words ending in -ing, -heid or -tie usually take de, and words ending in -isme or -ment usually take het.
- No rule covers every noun, so learn each one together with its article.
Read the full rules for de and het or browse everyday Dutch words by topic.
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