De or het onbekende?
de onbekende
stranger, non-acquaintance
Article and plural
- Singular
- de onbekende
- Plural (meervoud)
- de onbekenden
- Diminutive
- het onbekendetje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de onbekende is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de onbekenden whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het onbekendetje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze onbekende | deze onbekenden |
| that, those | die onbekende | die onbekenden |
| which (the … that) | de onbekende die … | de onbekenden die … |
| our | onze onbekende | onze onbekenden |
Meaning in English
- stranger, non-acquaintance, someone neither known nor trusted to the person of reference
- The unknown, what one is not familiar with
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