Definite
and indefinite articles.
The
indefinite article in een,
and, as well as in english, it is just used in singular. Plural has no
indefinite article.
Example:
Een
huis.
Een
lepel.
There
are, technicly speaking, three kind of definite articles in singular:
masculine, femenine and neutral; and one in the plural form.
Singular:
de, de, het
Plural:
de
Examples:
De
appel (singular masculine)
De
appels (plural masculine)
De kerk (singular femenine)
De kerken (plural femenine)
Het been (singular neutral)
De benen (plural neutral)
As
we can see, de works pretty much for
everything xD!
So,
although we have three for the singular forms and one for the plural, like in
german; masculine, femenine and plural are the same, like the english the. The
het article, which we use for the
neutral form in singular only, is not just the one different, but it is also
much less frecuent. You might not believe this at first because there are a
whole bunch of very common words that
have the neutral article, which might give you the impression that the amounts
are the same ore even thay the het
article is more common that the de
ones.
For
this reason, learn the article for each word by memory, and do the same as you
advance your studies, but if you do not know the article for new words as your
dutch is better and you find yourself in a conversation in dutch, just go with
the de.
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