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De or het fles?

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de fles

bottle

/flɛs/

Forms

Singular
de fles
Plural
de flessen
Diminutive
het flesje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. bottle

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