De or het truck?
de truck
truck, lorry (heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods)
/tryk/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de truck
- Plural (meervoud)
- de trucks
- Diminutive
- het truckje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de truck is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de trucks whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het truckje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze truck | deze trucks |
| that, those | die truck | die trucks |
| which (the … that) | de truck die … | de trucks die … |
| our | onze truck | onze trucks |
Meaning in English
- truck, lorry (heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods)
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