De or het ramp?
de ramp
disaster, catastrophe
/rɛmp/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de ramp
- Plural (meervoud)
- de ramps, de rampen
- Diminutive
- het rampje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de ramp is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de ramps whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het rampje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze ramp | deze ramps |
| that, those | die ramp | die ramps |
| which (the … that) | de ramp die … | de ramps die … |
| our | onze ramp | onze ramps |
Meaning in English
- disaster, catastrophe
- a construction to do skating tricks, usually in the form of one half of a pipe, a half-pipe
- an accident
- a ramp
- a driveway
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