De or het lens?
de lens
optical lens
/lɛns/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de lens
- Plural (meervoud)
- de lenzen
- Diminutive
- het lensje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de lens is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de lenzen whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het lensje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze lens | deze lenzen |
| that, those | die lens | die lenzen |
| which (the … that) | de lens die … | de lenzen die … |
| our | onze lens | onze lenzen |
Meaning in English
- optical lens
- a type of barbless harpoon used for killing whales
- crystalline lens in the eye
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