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De or het klant?

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de klant

customer, client

/klɑnt/

Forms

Singular
de klant
Plural
de klanten
Diminutive
het klantje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. customer, client
  2. chap, bloke

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