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