De or het kwik?
het kwik
mercury
/kʋɪk/
Article and plural
- Singular
- het kwik
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het kwik is learned together with the word.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What het changes
| Singular | |
|---|---|
| this, these | dit kwik |
| that, those | dat kwik |
| which (the … that) | het kwik dat … |
| our | ons kwik |
Meaning in English
- mercury
- the temperature
Remember kwik 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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