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De or het pols?

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de pols

wrist

/pɔls/

Forms

Singular
de pols
Plural
de polsen
Diminutive
het polsje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. wrist

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