de of het faro?
het faro
type of beer
noun
It is “het faro”.
Pronunciation, example sentences and the rest of the entry: faro
Forms
- Article
- het faro
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Ik drink vanavond een lekker glas faro.
I'm drinking a nice glass of faro tonight.
Hebben jullie ook faro op de kaart?
Do you also have faro on the menu?
Dit faro is erg zoet.
This faro is very sweet.
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 faro” rather than as “faro” 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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