De or het vraag?
de vraag
question, query
/vraːx/
Forms
- Singular
- de vraag
- Plural
- de vragen
- Diminutive
- het vraagje
Why de?
- No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de vraag is learned together with the word.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de vragen whatever the singular takes.
- Every diminutive takes het: het vraagje.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Meaning in English
- question, query
- question, issue, problem
- interrogative, question (sentence form formulating a query)
- demand
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