De or het jack?
het jack
jacket
Article and plural
- Singular
- het jack
- Plural (meervoud)
- de jacks
- Diminutive
- het jackje
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het jack is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de jacks whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het jackje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What het changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | dit jack | deze jacks |
| that, those | dat jack | die jacks |
| which (the … that) | het jack dat … | de jacks die … |
| our | ons jack | onze jacks |
Meaning in English
- jacket
Remember jack with Spreek
Spreek keeps the Dutch words you meet, article included, reviews them with you and then has you use them in a spoken conversation.
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