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De or het pasta?

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de pasta

pasta

/ˈpɑs.taː/

Forms

Singular
de pasta
Plural
de pasta's
Diminutive
het pastaatje

Why de?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de pasta is learned together with the word.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de pasta's whatever the singular takes.
  • Every diminutive takes het: het pastaatje.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. pasta
  2. paste

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