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De or het recht?

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het recht

a right, competence, authority, privilege

/rɛxt/

Forms

Singular
het recht
Plural
de rechten
Diminutive
het rechtje

Why het?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. a right, competence, authority, privilege
  2. justice
  3. jurisprudence, the law
  4. a formal fee, custom, duty to be paid

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