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De or het plafond?

← Dutch words

het plafond

ceiling

/plaːˈfɔn/

Forms

Singular
het plafond
Plural
de plafonds
Diminutive
het plafondje

Why het?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. ceiling
  2. maximum, upper limit

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