De or het melk?
de melk
milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)
/mɛlk/
Forms
- Singular
- de melk
- Diminutive
- het melkje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de melk is learned together with the word.
- Every diminutive takes het: het melkje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Meaning in English
- milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)
- milk (nutritious liquid derived from vegetable sources, sometimes as a deliberate substitute of mammalian milk)
- various 'milky' juices (that resembles or looks like milk), as secreted by certain plants and insects
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