De or het statistiek?
de statistiek
statistics (discipline, principally within applied mathematics
/staː.tɪsˈtik/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de statistiek
- Plural (meervoud)
- de statistieken
- Diminutive
- het statistiekje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de statistiek is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de statistieken whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het statistiekje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze statistiek | deze statistieken |
| that, those | die statistiek | die statistieken |
| which (the … that) | de statistiek die … | de statistieken die … |
| our | onze statistiek | onze statistieken |
Meaning in English
- statistics (discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data)
- statistic
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