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De or het nood?

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de nood

emergency, crisis, distress (often used in compounds)

/noːt/

Forms

Singular
de nood
Plural
de noden
Diminutive
het noodje

Why de?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de nood is learned together with the word.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de noden whatever the singular takes.
  • Every diminutive takes het: het noodje.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. emergency, crisis, distress (often used in compounds)
  2. need

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