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De or het incident?

het incident

an incident

/ˌɪn.siˈdɛnt/

Article and plural

Singular
het incident
Plural (meervoud)
de incidenten

Why het?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

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What het changes

SingularPlural
this, thesedit incidentdeze incidenten
that, thosedat incidentdie incidenten
which (the … that)het incident dat …de incidenten die …
ourons incidentonze incidenten

Meaning in English

  1. an incident

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