De or het psychiater?
de psychiater
psychiatrist (doctor specializing in psychiatry)
Article and plural
- Singular
- de psychiater
- Plural (meervoud)
- de psychiaters
- Diminutive
- het psychiatertje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de psychiater is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de psychiaters whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het psychiatertje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze psychiater | deze psychiaters |
| that, those | die psychiater | die psychiaters |
| which (the … that) | de psychiater die … | de psychiaters die … |
| our | onze psychiater | onze psychiaters |
Meaning in English
- psychiatrist (doctor specializing in psychiatry)
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