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De or het nonsens?

de nonsens

nonsense (meaningless words)

Article and plural

Singular
de nonsens

Why de?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de nonsens is learned together with the word.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Check the article of another noun

What de changes

Singular
this, thesedeze nonsens
that, thosedie nonsens
which (the … that)de nonsens die …
ouronze nonsens

Meaning in English

  1. nonsense (meaningless words)

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