De or het hotel?
het hotel
hotel
/ɦoːˈtɛl/
Forms
- Singular
- het hotel
- Plural
- de hotels
- Diminutive
- het hotelletje
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het hotel is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de hotels whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het hotelletje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Meaning in English
- hotel
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