De or het snack?
de snack
snack
/snɛk/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de snack
- Plural (meervoud)
- de snacks
- Diminutive
- het snackje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de snack is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de snacks whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het snackje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze snack | deze snacks |
| that, those | die snack | die snacks |
| which (the … that) | de snack die … | de snacks die … |
| our | onze snack | onze snacks |
Meaning in English
- snack
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