De or het duiker?
de duiker
an underwater diver
/ˈdœy̯.kər/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de duiker
- Plural (meervoud)
- de duikers
- Diminutive
- het duikertje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de duiker is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de duikers whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het duikertje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze duiker | deze duikers |
| that, those | die duiker | die duikers |
| which (the … that) | de duiker die … | de duikers die … |
| our | onze duiker | onze duikers |
Meaning in English
- an underwater diver
- a gymnastic diver
- a fairly narrow water passage under roads and dikes; a culvert
- a loon (N-Am) or diver (UK), waterbird of the order Gaviiformes
- a duiker, antelope of the subfamily Cephalophinae
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