De or het nieuws?
het nieuws
news
/niu̯s/
Forms
- Singular
- het nieuws
- Diminutive
- het nieuwsje
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het nieuws is learned together with the word.
- Every diminutive takes het: het nieuwsje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Meaning in English
- news
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