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De or het vlees?

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het vlees

meat

/vleːs/

Forms

Singular
het vlees
Plural
de vlezen
Diminutive
het vleesje

Why het?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. meat
  2. flesh

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