Skip to content

De or het ei?

← Dutch words

het ei

egg

/ɛi̯/

Forms

Singular
het ei
Plural
de eieren
Diminutive
het eitje

Why het?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. egg

Remember ei with Spreek

Spreek keeps the Dutch words you meet, article included, reviews them with you and then has you use them in a spoken conversation.

See what Spreek does

FreeiPhoneDownload on the App Store