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De or het reiziger?

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de reiziger

traveller, voyager

/ˈrɛi̯zəɣər/

Forms

Singular
de reiziger
Plural
de reizigers
Diminutive
het reizigertje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. traveller, voyager
  2. Dutch people who live in wagons or mobile homes, predominantly descended from 19th-century displaced agricultural workers

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