De or het stoel?
de stoel
a chair, a piece of furniture used for sitting
/stul/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de stoel
- Plural (meervoud)
- de stoelen
- Diminutive
- het stoeltje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de stoel is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de stoelen whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het stoeltje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze stoel | deze stoelen |
| that, those | die stoel | die stoelen |
| which (the … that) | de stoel die … | de stoelen die … |
| our | onze stoel | onze stoelen |
Meaning in English
- a chair, a piece of furniture used for sitting, normally portable and having four legs
- any seat, from stool to throne; a dais
- the base on which something rests, e.g. platform; something fixed on it, notably a workbench
- a place of residence, headquarters, powerbase
- a receptacle, stool, a type of stump
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