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De or het hypotheek?

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de hypotheek

mortgage

Forms

Singular
de hypotheek
Plural
de hypotheken
Diminutive
het hypotheekje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. mortgage

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