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De or het voet?

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de voet

foot (lowest part of the legs)

/vut/

Forms

Singular
de voet
Plural
de voeten
Diminutive
het voetje

Why de?

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

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. foot (lowest part of the legs)
  2. foot, base (lowest part of any standard, support, stand or pillar)
  3. imperial foot (unit of measure)
  4. Dutch foot (unit of measure)
  5. foot (most basic element of a metre)

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