De or het kameraad?
de kameraad
comrade
Article and plural
- Singular
- de kameraad
- Plural (meervoud)
- de kameraden
- Diminutive
- het kameraadje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de kameraad is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de kameraden whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het kameraadje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze kameraad | deze kameraden |
| that, those | die kameraad | die kameraden |
| which (the … that) | de kameraad die … | de kameraden die … |
| our | onze kameraad | onze kameraden |
Meaning in English
- comrade
- friend
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