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