de of het corso?
het corso
parade
noun · /ˈkɔr.soː/
It is “het corso”.
Pronunciation, example sentences and the rest of the entry: corso
Forms
- Article
- het corso
- Diminutive
- het corsootje
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Het corso was indrukwekkend dit jaar.
The parade was impressive this year.
Ga jij ook naar het corso kijken?
Are you also going to watch the parade?
Het corso begint al om twaalf uur.
The parade already starts at twelve o'clock.
Why this article
No rule predicts it
This one has to be memorised. No spelling pattern marks it as neuter, which is exactly why it is worth learning as “het corso” rather than as “corso” on its own.
The rules that do work
- • Every plural takes “de”, without exception.
- • Every diminutive ending in -je takes “het”, without exception.
- • Nouns ending in -ing, -heid, -tie, -teit or -schap take “de”.
- • Roughly two thirds of all nouns take “de”, so it is the better guess.
Other nouns whose article has to be memorised
Stop guessing de and het
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