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De or het tankstation?

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het tankstation

filling station, petrol station (UK), gas station (US)

Forms

Singular
het tankstation
Plural
de tankstations
Diminutive
het tankstationnetje

Why het?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. filling station, petrol station (UK), gas station (US)

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