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De or het schuld?

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de schuld

debt, account payable

/sxʏlt/

Forms

Singular
de schuld
Plural
de schulden
Diminutive
het schuldje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. debt, account payable
  2. any obligor’s duty to perform
  3. blame, fault (responsibility for a mishap or mistake)
  4. guilt, culpability
  5. guilt; fault (condition of moral deficiency)

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