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De or het groente?

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de groente

vegetables

/ˈɣrun.tə/

Forms

Singular
de groente
Plural
de groenten
Diminutive
het groentje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. vegetables
  2. a (type of) vegetable

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