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De or het koorts?

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de koorts

fever, illness or symptom

/koːrts/

Forms

Singular
de koorts
Plural
de koortsen
Diminutive
het koortsje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. fever, illness or symptom
  2. feverish obsession

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