De or het patriot?
de patriot
patriot
/ˌpaː.triˈɔt/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de patriot
- Plural (meervoud)
- de patriotten
- Diminutive
- het patriotje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de patriot is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de patriotten whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het patriotje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze patriot | deze patriotten |
| that, those | die patriot | die patriotten |
| which (the … that) | de patriot die … | de patriotten die … |
| our | onze patriot | onze patriotten |
Meaning in English
- patriot
- a republican opponent of the House of Orange-Nassau during the second half of the eighteenth century, in favor of centralisation and administrative rationalisation
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