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De or het hippie?

de hippie

hippie

/ˈɦɪ.pi/

Article and plural

Singular
de hippie
Plural (meervoud)
de hippies

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

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What de changes

SingularPlural
this, thesedeze hippiedeze hippies
that, thosedie hippiedie hippies
which (the … that)de hippie die …de hippies die …
ouronze hippieonze hippies

Meaning in English

  1. hippie

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