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De or het team?

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het team

team (group of people)

/tiːm/

Forms

Singular
het team
Plural
de teams
Diminutive
het teampje

Why het?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. team (group of people)

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