De or het karakter?
het karakter
a character, a person's psychological characteristics
/ˌkaːˈrɑk.tər/
Article and plural
- Singular
- het karakter
- Plural (meervoud)
- de karakters
- Diminutive
- het karaktertje
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het karakter is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de karakters whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het karaktertje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What het changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | dit karakter | deze karakters |
| that, those | dat karakter | die karakters |
| which (the … that) | het karakter dat … | de karakters die … |
| our | ons karakter | onze karakters |
Meaning in English
- a character, a person's psychological characteristics; especially guts, backbone
- a character, standardized graphic symbol, such as a letter of an alphabet or a numeric digit
- a character; a role, often conventionalised, in theater
- a nature, a character
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