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De or het genialiteit?

de genialiteit

brilliance, ingenuity

Article and plural

Singular
de genialiteit
Diminutive
het genialiteitje

Why de?

  • Nouns ending in -heid, -teit, -tie, -sie, -nis, -ij and -schap usually take de.
  • Every diminutive takes het: het genialiteitje.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

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What de changes

Singular
this, thesedeze genialiteit
that, thosedie genialiteit
which (the … that)de genialiteit die …
ouronze genialiteit

Meaning in English

  1. brilliance, ingenuity

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