De or het wetenschap?
de wetenschap
knowledge
/ˈʋeːtənˌsxɑp/
Article and plural
- Singular
- de wetenschap
- Plural (meervoud)
- de wetenschappen
Why de?
- Nouns ending in -heid, -teit, -tie, -sie, -nis, -ij and -schap usually take de.
- Every plural takes de, so it is de wetenschappen whatever the singular takes.
The rules for de and het, with the exceptions
Check the article of another noun
What de changes
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| this, these | deze wetenschap | deze wetenschappen |
| that, those | die wetenschap | die wetenschappen |
| which (the … that) | de wetenschap die … | de wetenschappen die … |
| our | onze wetenschap | onze wetenschappen |
Meaning in English
- knowledge
- science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship (collective discipline of learning acquired through any scholarly method; totality of knowledge)
- any academic discipline; in general, the sciences and humanities taken as a whole
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