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De or het schroot?

het schroot

scrap (discarded metal, junk metal)

/sxroːt/

Article and plural

Singular
het schroot

Why het?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so het schroot is learned together with the word.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

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What het changes

Singular
this, thesedit schroot
that, thosedat schroot
which (the … that)het schroot dat …
ourons schroot

Meaning in English

  1. scrap (discarded metal, junk metal)

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