De or het restaurant?
het restaurant
restaurant
/rɛstoːˈrɑnt/
Forms
- Singular
- het restaurant
- Plural
- de restaurants
- Diminutive
- het restaurantje
Why het?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het restaurant is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de restaurants whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het restaurantje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Meaning in English
- restaurant
Remember restaurant with Spreek
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