De or het fantasie?
de fantasie
fantasy, imagination (capacity for imagining and thinking up things)
/fɑntaːˈzi/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de fantasie
- Plural (meervoud)
- de fantasieën
- Diminutive
- het fantasietje
Why de?
- Nouns ending in -heid, -teit, -tie, -sie, -nis, -ij and -schap usually take de.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de fantasieën whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het fantasietje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze fantasie | deze fantasieën |
| that, those | die fantasie | die fantasieën |
| which (the … that) | de fantasie die … | de fantasieën die … |
| our | onze fantasie | onze fantasieën |
Meaning in English
- fantasy, imagination (capacity for imagining and thinking up things)
- fantasy (something that has been imagined)
- fantasy, imagination (fantastic image or state, state of fantasy)
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