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De or het vloer?

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de vloer

a floor

/vlur/

Forms

Singular
de vloer
Plural
de vloeren
Diminutive
het vloertje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. a floor
  2. any ground, surface
  3. the bottom, lowest level

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