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De or het station?

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het station

station (place for vehicles to stop)

/staːˈʃɔn/

Forms

Singular
het station
Plural
de stations
Diminutive
het stationnetje

Why het?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. station (place for vehicles to stop)
  2. disk drive
  3. radio station or television station

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