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De or het suggestie?

de suggestie

suggestion

Article and plural

Singular
de suggestie
Plural (meervoud)
de suggesties
Diminutive
het suggestietje

Why de?

  • Nouns ending in -heid, -teit, -tie, -sie, -nis, -ij and -schap usually take de.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de suggesties whatever the singular takes.
  • Every diminutive takes het: het suggestietje.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

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What de changes

SingularPlural
this, thesedeze suggestiedeze suggesties
that, thosedie suggestiedie suggesties
which (the … that)de suggestie die …de suggesties die …
ouronze suggestieonze suggesties

Meaning in English

  1. suggestion

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