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De or het video?

de video

video, movie (regardless of medium)

/ˈvi.di.oː/

Forms

Singular
de video
Plural
de video's
Diminutive
het videootje

Why de?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de video is learned together with the word.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de video's whatever the singular takes.
  • Every diminutive takes het: het videootje.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. video, movie (regardless of medium)
  2. videotape
  3. video, video signal or the visual element of a medium
  4. movie which is on a video tape
  5. video recorder

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