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De or het overstroming?

← Dutch words

de overstroming

a flood

/ˌoː.vərˈstroː.mɪŋ/

Forms

Singular
de overstroming
Plural
de overstromingen
Diminutive
het overstrominkje

Why de?

  • Nouns ending in -ing almost always take de.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de overstromingen whatever the singular takes.
  • Every diminutive takes het: het overstrominkje.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. a flood

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