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De or het student?

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de student

a student at an institute for academic tertiary education

/styˈdɛnt/

Forms

Singular
de student
Plural
de studenten
Diminutive
het studentje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. a student at an institute for academic tertiary education
  2. a student at an institute for secondary or tertiary education.

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