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De or het garage?

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de garage

a garage (repair shop for motorised vehicles)

/ˌɣaːˈraː.ʒə/

Forms

Singular
de garage
Plural
de garages

Why de?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de garage is learned together with the word.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de garages whatever the singular takes.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. a garage (repair shop for motorised vehicles)
  2. a garage (building or room for storing and modifying motorised vehicles)

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